[openbox] Wonderful Window Manager

[Thomas Polliard]

Sorry bout the long sentence. 
Normally, I will be pasting to multiple windows because I didn't have 
the foresight to startup a distributed shell or some such.
A common situation is to have 10-15 "terms" opened at a time where I 
want to see the output but they overlap so that if they raise in the 
wrong order I get a screen full of old commands.  I might need to change 
a part of the command Im pasting but dont want to raise the window as I 
pass through the terms. In my OLD window manager I had raise delay set 
to 10 seconds but the focus follows mouse with no delay (the smallest it 
would provide usually 1 millisecond).  That provides a way to paste 
commands that I need duplicated across all my "terms" and allows me to 
change the command usually before the window raises.  When I do have it 
raise I don't mind waiting because I can already start typing before the 
window has come up.

This is harder to explain then I thought. Sorry....

T.
Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Polliard wrote:
>
>> First let me start by saying, this is a kicka22 window manager.  I 
>> have used blackbox,fluxbox,enlightenment DR<17 and currently had been 
>> using DR17, the unfinished window manager ;).  This blows them all 
>> away.  You guys are doing a great job.  The tools that others have 
>> built to work with openbox needs a little help but, that is not 
>> openbox's issue.
>
> Thanks, i try.
>
>> Anyways onto my real issue
>
> I had a feeling you wanted something too ;)
>
>> Is there any intent in the future to provide a option to modify the 
>> Raise window delay and the focus delay independently.
>
> When i initially wrote that code the devs said it seems sort of 
> strange, why would you want to focus a window half a second before you 
> raise it? Is your intention to move the mouse away from the window 
> before it gets raised, and if so to where? Do you have a special spot 
> on your screen where you never have any windows?
>
>> The one "user" issue I have had is that I prefer to be able to go 
>> between windows without raising them when pasting commands from 
>> window to window, however, I also like to be able to modify the Raise 
>> so that when I do want a window to come to the front, I just have to 
>> click or hover for a little longer.
>
> I tried three times but this sentence is just too long to understand.
>
>> Thanks for starting with standards and moving from there. Keep up the 
>> excellent work
>>
>> Thomas P.
>
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson