Not only focus stealing, but focus hostage taking, when one application steals the focus and won't give it back!

Sun's notorious XBugTool stole both my input focus AND mouse motion, and held me hostage when I tried to file a bug against its XView buddy cmdtool. Here is the bug report I filed against the X11/NeWS server as a desperate cry for help while I was trapped in xbugtool's grabby clutches:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-window...

  Date: Mon, 20 May 91 22:45:46 PDT
  Bug Id: 1059974
  Category: x11news
  Subcategory: server
  Bug/Rfe: bug
  Synopsis: I have no mouse motion and my input focus is stuck in xbugtool!!!
  Keywords: I have no mouth and I must scream [Harlan Ellison]
  Severity: 1
  Priority: 1
  Description:
This is my worst nightmare! None of my TNT or XView applications are getting any mouse motion events, just clicks. And my input focus is stuck in xbugtool, of all places!!! When I click in cmdtool, it gets sucked back into xbugtool when I release the button! And I'm not using click-to-type! I can make selections from menus (tnt, olwm, and xview) if I click them up instead of dragging, but nobody's receiving any mouse motion!

I just started up a fresh server, ran two jets and a cmdtool, fired up a bugtool from one of the jets (so input focus must have been working then), and after xbugtool had throbbed and grunted around for a while and finally put up its big dumb busy window, I first noticed something was wrong when I could not drag windows around!

Lucky thing my input focus ended up stuck in xbugtool!

The scrollbar does not warp my cursor either... I can switch the input focus to any of xbugtool's windows, but I can't ... -- oomph errrgh aaaaahhh! There, yes!

Aaaaah! What a relief! It stopped! I can move my mouse again!! Hurray!!! It started working when I opened a "jet" window, found I could type into it, so I moved the mouse around, the cursor disappeared, I typed, there were a couple of beeps, I still couldn't find the cursor, so I hit the "Open" key, the jet closed to an icon, and I could type to xbugtool again! And lo and behold now I can type into the cmdtool, too! Just by moving my cursor into it! What a technological wonder! Now I can start filing bug reports against cmdtool, which was the only reason I had the damn thing on my screen in the first place!!! I am amazed at the way the window system seems to read my mind and predict my every move, seeming to carry out elaborate practical jokes to prevent me from filing bugs against it. I had no idea the Open Windows desktop had such sophisticated and well integrated interclient communication!