[openbox] focus_fallback() v1.106 cvs change

[Mike]

On Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 10:04AM, Marius Nita wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:30:06AM -0500, Mike wrote:
>> 
>> On a related note, do you know anyone that disables focusLast? If not, 
>> maybe that's an unnecessary option that could be removed, just keep it as 
>> the default behavior.
>
>I disable focusLast. I pretty much hate it when the WM tries to be
>smart about which one of my windows should be focused, when I, the
>user, have a perfectly good (and quick!) mechanism for focusing my own
>windows. Placement is one thing to be smart about. Focus is not. I
>cringe whenever I close a window (with a keybinding) thinking it would
>be focused, while the wm had focused some other window, totally
>unrelated to the screen area I was working in.
>
>OSX for example (*grin*) doesn't do any kind of focus fallback. You
>close an app, nothing else gets focused. You click the root window,
>the focused app gets unfocused.
>
>Besides, focusLast, for me anyway, has had a miss rate of close to
>100%. It never focuses the window that I'm going to use next--I have
>to do my own focusing regardless.

Hehe ok, forget I mentioned it. :P