[openbox] an alternative to underMouse, was: Re: [openbox] MoveToEdge loses focus in 3.4.4

[Andrei Paskevich]

I observe the same here. With the Dana's patch applied, xterm on top 
of another xterm won't lose focus when moved from under the pointer. 
Yet, xterm on top of Firefox, when moved off, loses focus to Firefox!
I wonder what makes the difference.

This happens with xterm over gtk-demo, too, though not every time.
Sometimes xterm keeps focus, sometimes loses it to gtk-demo.

As for "Refocus" action, that's exactly what I've proposed in
an earlier message. I still believe it could be a useful option.

Andrei

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 at 17:11:11 (-0600), Brian de Alwis wrote:
> I *was* having similar focus issues as Andrei.  I bind W-F1 to
> RaiseLower and the W-arrows to MoveToEdge*, and use them very
> frequently for moving windows about.  I couldn't get them to both
> work without Dana's focus_oddity.diff patch combined with
> <underMouse>yes</underMouse> and using the Activate action in the
> W-{Left,Right,Up,Down}.  So my W-{Left,Right,Up,Down} bindings now
> look like the following:
> 
>   <keybind key="W-Left">
>     <action name="MoveToEdgeWest"/>
>     <action name="Activate"/>
>   </keybind>
> 
> But I'm finding that when using the combinations, the focus is
> sometimes lost from the moving window and being wrongly transferred
> to the underlying window.  I've just realized that this occurs when
> moving something like an xterm that is on top of an Eclipse or
> Firefox window.  Consider the following example, where the asterisk
> indicates the mouse pointer:
> 
>     +-----------------+
>     | Firefox         |
>     |      +---------------+
>     |      |               |
>     |      |   *   xterm   |
>     |      |               |
>     |      +---------------+
>     |                 |
>     +-----------------+
> 
> Hitting W-Left until the xterm slides out from under the mouse will
> cause the xterm to lose focus to Firefox.  It's 100 % reproducible
> -- moving xterm over an xterm is fine, but xterm over Firefox or
> Eclipse always loses focus to the Firefox/Eclipse window.
> 
> I think I'd prefer an explicit Refocus action that would focus to
> the window under the mouse.  Then I would:
> 
>   * change to <underMouse>no</underMouse>
>   * change W-F1's RaiseLower to be followed by a Refocus
>   * change W-arrows to remove the Activate
> 
> I think this is cleaner (the combination of underMouse=yes and use
> of Activate seems contradictory), and might even allow getting rid
> of Activate?
> 
> Brian.