[openbox] Disabling raise-on-click

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Tore Anderson wrote:

> * Tore Anderson
>
>>    +-----------+
>>    |A          |
>>    |    +----+ |
>>    | *  |B   | |
>>    |    +----+ |
>>    +-----------+
>
> * Kacper Wysocki
>
>> Turn off raiseOnFocus in the rc.xml file. You might also want to look
>> for all things that do <action name="raise" /> in the config.
>
>  raiseOnFocus is already off - if it was on, A would have been raised
> as soon as the pointer moved from B to A.  The problem is not to give A
> focus without raising it, but to actually be able to click inside its
> frame without raising it.  Scroll wheel events does -not- raise A, but
> all three mouse buttons does, so it's impossible to select some text
> with the pointer, move it back to B, and paste it there, because B
> hides behind A as soon as I try to select something.
>
>  There only match in my rc.xml when grepping for "raise"
> (case-insensitive) is:
>
>    <raiseOnFocus>no</raiseOnFocus>
>
>  So I don't use the raise action at all...

In that case it must be the application itself raising on mouse events, is 
this a specific app A or any window A? Firefox has been known to do this 
for example.

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Mikael Magnusson