How do I get around focus grabs?

Some applications may grab the mouse or keyboard. When this happens, you can't use TotalView (or any other application). Here are three solutions:

• Using your mouse and your window manager, iconify the windows of the application that grabbed the keyboard.
• Use VNC to set up another logical display for TotalView or your application-it doesn't matter which-so that the grabs don't affect TotalView.
• Use a rootless PC X-server like Exceed in native window-management mode. This runs the window manager within Microsoft Windows instead of X.

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