[openbox] When click does the raising
Mikael Magnusson
mangosoft at comhem.se
Sun Oct 26 10:11:27 EST 2003
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, John Russell wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to configure openbox so that
> windows are focused when you first click on them, but
> _raised_ when you release the mouse button.
>
>
> IMO this would be insanely useful for people who like
> to drag and drop files from file managers into ....
> well anything... and people who don't care wouldn't
> even notice.
>
> Scenario
>
> You click on a text editor to raise it. It now just
> covers the file manager of your choice but you can
> still see the files. With the raise not happening
> until after you release the mouse, you could click on
> a file from the manager and drag it to the editor
> without having the filemanager raise up and cover then
> editor. Wouldn't that be cool??
>
> BTW, I already have this in my rc.xml and it doesn't
> work how I think it should. Unless I'm confused about
> the difference between click and press. (press is the
> down motion, click is the complete up and down).
>
>
> <mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
> <action name="Raise"/>
> </mousebind>
> <mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
> <action name="Focus"/>
> </mousebind>
>
> Anyone know how to do this? Thanks
>
Try changing Click to Release
>
> John
>
> =====
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>
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Mikael Magnusson
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