[openbox] sloppy focus "stealing"

Anthony Thyssen A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au
Sat Apr 30 20:15:43 EDT 2011


On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
Mithat Konar <mithat_konar at yahoo.com> wrote:
| This may be a RTFA but I have and ... :-(
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| I've got a bit of RSI going and find that sloppy focus (i.e., focus follow mouse) helps a bit because it cuts down on the number of clicks I need to do. However, there is one use case where it gets me into trouble:
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| 1) An app brings up a dialog
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| 2) The mouse gets nudged (or is moved too slowly), and before I can access the dialog, another app (or the same app if it's a non-modal dialog) gets the focus, obscuring the dialog box.
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| In both cases, having a "snap to new window" or even "snap to default widget on new window" would prevent this. Is this possible with OB?
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It sounds like you not only have "focus follows mouse" but also "auto-raise"

I myself like to use "focus follows mouse" but as you notice it does
not really work well with auto-raise, especially when dialog boxes are
present.  I suggest you turn off auto-raise.

PS: Actually I hate auto raise and I often type into partly obsured
windows.  For example I often layer terminal windows (to lots of
different hosts, as I am a system administrator) so only the bottom
few lines are visible I can then move the mouse an type into each window
as needed without needing to re-layer my windows (and obsuring other
information windows.   I have been doing this for twenty years!

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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