[openbox] Self focus moves window to current desktop.

[Andrew Taylor]

Ahh, I'm on 3.4.7.2 will try 3.4.8. Thanks.


Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Andrew Taylor wrote:
>
>> Heyas.
>>
>> OB is nearly perfect, imo, but one thorn compared to metacity is
>> handling of self focussing windows. I'm running into this when
>> developing with eclipse. I set a breakpoint within eclipse and move to
>> another desktop to use firefox to browse the webapp in development.
>> When the breakpoint is hit, eclipse gains focus and is moved to the
>> current desktop. This is a PITA, because I end up with too many windows
>> on the one desktop. When the same occurs in metacity, the desktop
>> containing the window to be focussed is selected and then the window is
>> focussed. The window stays on the desktop it was originally, and not
>> moved to the current desktop. Is there a way to configure this
>> behaviour in OB?
>
> Hi,
>
> In 3.4.8, windows that focus themselves when they are on another 
> desktop will be ignored (they will get the 'demands attention' flag 
> set though which should make them blue in the taskbar or something 
> like that). If they specify the user focused them (only pagers and 
> taskbars should do this really (also note that when i say "themselves" 
> i mean any window, openbox doesn't know if two windows are mapped by 
> the same physical process)), they will be brought to the current 
> desktop still. Openbox will never change the current desktop if you 
> did not request it.
>
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson
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