[openbox] focus follows mouse and keybinding raise/lower window

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Clay Barnes wrote:

> On 07:07 Tue 09 May     , Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Emile Snyder wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> From the FAQ:
>>>
>>> Q: When I lower, raise or move windows with a keybinding, focus doesn't
>>> follow the mouse!
>>> A: This is a feature, how large is the chance that the mouse
>>> accidentally enters a window you want to focus when you move or
>>> lower/raise something?
>>>
>>> Uhh, for me, 99% because I'm always sending windows to the back of the
>>> stack to *get at what's behind them*.  I've switched to openbox recently
>>> because blackbox makes my gnome panel based desktop take forever to
>>> start up (presumably because it's waiting for a session type connection
>>> to time out since blackbox doesn't support sessions?).  The focus issue
>>> is a deal killer to me.
>>>
>>> Can one of the openbox hackers point me quickly to which source file I
>>> should poke around in to change this behavior?
>>
>> If you bind lower to a mouse button, which is reasonable if you want focus
>> to change based on the mouse pointer's position, focus will in fact change
>> to the window that the mouse pointer is over after your window has
>> lowered. If you are working only with the keyboard, how do you make sure
>> the mouse pointer is where you want, do you move it first and then press a
>> keyboard binding??? Why not use Next/PreviousWindow?
> Strict ordering regardless of order of focus (including other windows
> not in the "stack") is a barrier to the next/prev. window idea.
>
> And with the mouse, it's possible Emile doesn't have a button to spare.
>
> I'm not saying it should be a mainline change, but I do see why an
> individual change would be warrented.

Something still seems wrong to me about using the keyboard to lower a 
window because you "do not use the mouse much" and still depend on the 
location of the mouse pointer to determine focus. Maybe you want to use 
virtual desktops? That way you know exactly where every window is and can 
have direct keybinds to them.

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Mikael Magnusson