Focus to last window problem

[Alan]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:31:17 +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Alan wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:46:54 +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> I usually bind Alt-F4 to delete window and Alt-F1 to iconify window.
>> Quite often, I iconify or delete bunch of windows using the repetition
>> capability of the keyboard. I know that I have 5 windows under my mouse
>> pointer, I make a long press on Alt-F1 and all my windows are
>> iconified. That used to work with fvwm, sawfish and icewm (if I
>> remember well for the last one). When the mouse is on the root window,
>> no window has the focus.
>>
>> The problem with openbox is that the focus then goes to another window
>> which is not under my mouse pointer, with the nasty effects you can
>> imagine with a repeat rate of 40 keystrokes/seconds :-) The Alt-F1 key
>> has an effect near from Windows-D !!
> 
> With underMouse on, the focus should go to the window under the cursor
> as long as there is one, and after that it will go to the last focused
> window. Is this what happens?

Yes, it works perfectly like this.


> I have never heard of someone grouping windows they want to use together
> by putting them on top of eachother, it's sort of a strange idea to me.
> I have never felt the need to only iconify/close the windows under my
> cursor. Maybe you should group these windows by putting them on another
> workspace instead? This also has the advantage that you can see them at
> the same time.

In fact this is not at all a deliberate grouping. I should have been more 
descriptive. Just a usual example:

I (re-)start my favorite web browser (galeon) which has session
history, on one virtual desktop, shared with something like 6 terminal
emulators (xterm). It generally creates something like 20-30 big
windows (80% of the screen) with many tabs (I have the habit of
keeping articles I want to read soon open). Given the size of the 
windows, they are stacked one onto another. I just place the mouse where 
there is no xterm, hit Alt-F1 and every browser window is iconified in 1 
second.

With openbox, I iconify my whole desktop.





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