[openbox] Using Next/PreviousWindow with client-list-combined-menu

Clay Barnes clay.barnes at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 15:53:47 EDT 2007


On 21:40 Thu 07 Jun     , Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Clay Barnes wrote:
> 
> >On 20:46 Thu 07 Jun     , Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> >>On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Clay Barnes wrote:
> >>
> >>[snippy]
> >>
> >>>This brings to mind a longstanding issue I've had---I turn off window
> >>>decorations because they aren't useful for me, but without them, I
> >>>have issues sometimes using directional focus.  Say I just switched to
> >>>a workspace perfectly filled with terminals.  I don't know which is
> >>>focused, but I want to get to one on the west edge of the screen, so I
> >>>start direction focusing west... but nothing happens.  I check my
> >>>finger placement, and when it's fine, I realize that a window on the
> >>>west edge is already focused.  Now I have to do a direction focus to
> >>>the east to get the highlighting box to show up, then focus back west
> >>>before I can start traveling up or down the edge to the application I
> >>>wanted (assuming I hadn't just wasted my time because my desired
> >>>application was already focused).
> >>>
> >>>That was a very long-winded way of asking for the option to highlight
> >>>the currently focused app, even if my direction-focus command hasn't
> >>>changed which one it is.
> >>
> >>I'm pretty sure this was fixed in 3.4, since I fixed it.
> >>Hm, it seems dirfocus with dialog=no is quite broken though, you might
> >>want to turn on dialogs in the mean time.
> >
> >Hmm.  I did have dialog=yes.  Is there another reason that Openbox
> >3.3.994 wouldn't draw the highlight square unless focus *changes*?
> 
> Yes, as most people are aware, 3.3.994 is less than 3.4

LMAO!  I just copied and pasted that output from --version, failing to
notice that I did't actuall have the most recent version on this
particuar machine.

/me hangs his head in shame

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