[openbox] Using Next/PreviousWindow with client-list-combined-menu

Clay Barnes clay.barnes at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 15:37:10 EDT 2007


On 20:46 Thu 07 Jun     , Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Clay Barnes wrote:
> 
> [snippy]
> 
> >This brings to mind a longstanding issue I've had---I turn off window
> >decorations because they aren't useful for me, but without them, I
> >have issues sometimes using directional focus.  Say I just switched to
> >a workspace perfectly filled with terminals.  I don't know which is
> >focused, but I want to get to one on the west edge of the screen, so I
> >start direction focusing west... but nothing happens.  I check my
> >finger placement, and when it's fine, I realize that a window on the
> >west edge is already focused.  Now I have to do a direction focus to
> >the east to get the highlighting box to show up, then focus back west
> >before I can start traveling up or down the edge to the application I
> >wanted (assuming I hadn't just wasted my time because my desired
> >application was already focused).
> >
> >That was a very long-winded way of asking for the option to highlight
> >the currently focused app, even if my direction-focus command hasn't
> >changed which one it is.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this was fixed in 3.4, since I fixed it.
> Hm, it seems dirfocus with dialog=no is quite broken though, you might 
> want to turn on dialogs in the mean time.

Hmm.  I did have dialog=yes.  Is there another reason that Openbox
3.3.994 wouldn't draw the highlight square unless focus *changes*?

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