[openbox] focus followMouse issues with vmware

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Mike Hokenson wrote:

>
> On Friday, April 04, 2008 at 09:01PM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> >  Not sure if it's related, but I've been seeing focus issues off and
>> >  on for the last few months, maybe longer, where a quick motion
>> >  between a few windows (sometimes following a keyboard action, like
>> >  taking mplayer out of fullscreen) has resulted in an unfocused window
>> >  where the pointer is.
>>
>>  This is by design, the <underMouse> option turns this feature off.
>
> This was done more as a test after I noticed windows sometimes not being 
> focused when moving the mouse around between windows in a more typical 
> usage. Not sure I understand, or maybe I miscommunicated something here. 
> If I have a grouping of 3-4 windows in a close area and move the mouse 
> in a quick circular motion, on occasion the window where the pointer is 
> doesn't get the focus.

This is not by design, assuming nothing but mouse movement happens, ie no 
windows magically appearing or closing, etc.

> The problem seems to happen more if there's another action associated 
> with the mouse movement, like taking mplayer out of fullscreen and the 
> pointer is moved to another window. My desktop is very fixed, so I know 
> where everything is.

This is controlled by <underMouse>.

What version of Openbox are you using?

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Mikael Magnusson