[openbox] Desktop switching delay

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Wed Oct 19 10:13:25 EDT 2011


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:

> After toying around with some of GNOME 3's new features, I've started using
> dynamic desktops to organise my work a lot more. One thing I've noticed, and
> I was wondering if anyone could confirm it, is that when switching between
> windows on different desktops, sometimes the window gets flagged as URGENT
> but the desktop isn't switched.
>
> For example, I have a Main workspace and a IM/Mail workspace. Thunderbird
> sits on the IM/Mail one, and when switching from urxvt [Main] to Thunderbird
> [IM/Mail], Thunderbird will flash in the window list on Xfce4-panel, but
> urxvt will keep the focus, and so I have to click on the icon in the panel
> to focus Thunderbird.
>
> (This doesn't occur all the time, only occasionally, and if it's a mistake
> in my configuration settings I would have thought that it'd occur all the
> time.)
>
> For the record, my window-switching bindings are:
>
>    <keybind key="A-Tab">
>      <action name="NextWindow">
>        <bar>no</bar>
>        <dialog>yes</dialog>
>        <raise>no</raise>
>      </action>
>    </keybind>
>    <keybind key="A-S-Tab">
>      <action name="PreviousWindow">
>        <bar>no</bar>
>        <dialog>yes</dialog>
>        <raise>no</raise>
>      </action>
>    </keybind>
>    <keybind key="W-Tab">
>      <action name="NextWindow">
>        <allDesktops>yes</allDesktops>
>        <bar>no</bar>
>        <dialog>yes</dialog>
>      </action>
>    </keybind>
>    <keybind key="W-S-Tab">
>      <action name="PreviousWindow">
>        <allDesktops>yes</allDesktops>
>        <bar>no</bar>
>        <dialog>yes</dialog>
>      </action>
>    </keybind>
>
>
There is a related bug fix in git.
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