[openbox] [ANNOUNCE] Openbox-3.0-beta6 released

Ben Jansens ben at orodu.net
Fri Sep 26 15:07:41 EDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:57:38AM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:54:18 -0400
> Ben Jansens <ben at orodu.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:48:33PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> > > >Popups can be disabled again in CVS already. And I'm still mulling
> > > >over window placement :)
> > > 
> > > I know the stuff in my patch isn't exactly beautiful, but it's
> > > simple and works.
> > > 
> > > If there were numerous window placement methods, assigning a focus
> > > function when the config is read might work ok. place_transient() ||
> > > place_dialog() 
> > > || place->type() || place_random(). But that's not the case. Since
> > > |there's 
> > > only 2 and it doesn't sound like there's much interest in focus
> > > follows mouse anymore, I dunno.
> > 
> > I'm trying hard to make things "just work" rather than have 500
> > options to tweak. But it seems some people don't want smart placement
> > at all. I'm not sure if I should just provide a boolean for this or
> > not.
> > 
> > Interest in focus follows mouse? Personally I think its a horrible
> > thing,
> 
> eep, please don't ever remove focus follows mouse! its the only setting
> i'm used to now :) great for when i'm typing in one window and i just
> want to type in another window right underneath, but not bring it to the
> top.

I'm not planning to. But you don't need sloppy focus for that. All you need
is a mouse binding that focuses but doesn't raise the other window. This
doesn't really matter tho since sloppy focus isn't disppearing :)

Ben
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