Focus to last window problem

[Alan]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:23:43 +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Alan wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> This is sort of an uncommon use case, I feel. I think this would still
> work with openbox if you're more careful with the keyrepeat, it will
> iconify the galeons before it gets to the xterms.
> 
> We are also thinking about a feature where you can combine actions with
> per application tags, so you could say maybe something like <action
> name="iconify" tag="galeon"/> in a bind, or maybe something that pops up
> a dialog that lets you write in a string that matches titles or
> wm_class. Or have it as a separate action that lets you tag windows
> based on that, and then the next action could be anything and acts on
> all tagged windows. This is still quite tentative though, of course. :)

Thank you for your answer, I will train myself and see if openbox will
become my new window manager.

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