[openbox] Focus-under-mouse doesn't work (mostly)

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 19:23:31 EDT 2016


On 2016-09-30, Ian Zimmerman <itz at primate.net> wrote:
> On 2016-09-30 12:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> [I've been using 'focus-follows-mouse' since I started using X11 in
>> the 80's (I think it was twm back then), and now I just always assume
>> without thinking that input goes to the window where the mouse pointer
>> is.  It's very disconcerting when it doesn't.]

The patch didn't seem to help.  It's still rather intermittent. It
won't happen for a few hours at a time, and then it will fail
consistently for 5-10 minutes at a time.

> Were situations like those in this thread (i.e. a new or newly exposed
> window that happens to be under the pointer) handled correctly in twm?

Yep, always.  As far as I remember, fvwm2, and the XFCE window manager
all handled it fine as well.

-- 
Grant





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