[openbox] Issues with Openbox 3.4

[Dana Jansens]

Of course.. I forgot to attach the aforementioned patch.. Here it is.

On 6/10/07, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Matt Manzel <mmanzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't around for the pre-releases but a friend told me about the 3.4
> > release and I was surprised to see so many changes! Looks good. While
> > things were overall better, I have some growing pains:
> >
> >
> > * ResizeRelative <left> and <right> always affect the <left> edge of the
> > window frame. I double-checked my configuration and everything appears
> > right. I thought I would check here before I post a bug report.
>
> Yup, I just fixed that now, thanks.  You can use the attached patch if
> you are building it from source, or wait for 3.4.2, which will include
> the fix.
>
> > * Focus Grabbing Issues
> >
> > ** Firefox (on Ubuntu)
> > When I launch Firefox while another application has focus, Firefox opens
> > in the background and blinks at me. I would prefer it comes to the front
> > and takes the focus when it is opened.
>
> I'm assuming you mean launch firefox, when it is already running, to
> open a new window?
>
> If you're just launching the first window, it will get focus unless
> you are typing/doing stuff in another window while it is loading.
>
> The reason windows after the first don't get focused when you run
> Firefox again is that Firefox tells Openbox that they are being opened
> by a very old event.  It's lying to us, but we don't have any way to
> find that out..
>
> This is what Openbox says about it:
> FOCUS: Want to focus new window 0x182456a with time 35256063 (last
> time 35268115)
> FOCUS: Not focusing the window because the time is too old
>
> As you can see, the timestamp it claims was used to launch the new
> window is very old and completely irrelevant (probably the last time
> that you did something in another Firefox window).
>
> > ** Tilda (tilda.sf.net)
> > Tilda is a drop-down terminal in similar style to the "~" console in
> > several popular FPS games (Quake, Unreal Tournament, etc). When tilda is
> > activated, it no longer takes the focus like it is supposed to.
>
> Tilda has been broken and it hasn't gotten any better.  It actually
> doesn't run for me now.  I'm not sure why.  It won't run in Xnest on
> its own either.  So I can't comment on this, but I'm curious about
> what it's doing wrong - no other programs have trouble taking focus.
>
> > ** Parent and child windows
> > Parent/child windows of the same application don't always behave as
> > expected. For example, if you have the Gedit 'Find' (child) window open,
> > when you cycle applications and then bring it to the front the Gedit
> > parent window is not also brought to the font and may be hidden under
> > other open windows. I think the two windows should remain next to each
> > other in the z-order when changing focus.
>
> This was a conscious decision, to not raise parents and children
> together.  And when you don't raise them together, you can't move them
> in the focus order, or focus ends up potentially going behind
> everything leaving you with no idea where it went.  Maybe that's not a
> good idea, I don't know.  It was just the least intrusive/assuming
> thing to do, to leave the last focused window as what actually last
> had focus.
>
> >
> > * XML Whitespace removal
> > I am not sure if this is Openbox or OBConf but some application removed
> > all the whitespace from my rc.xml file. I understand this can be a speed
> > improvement, but I cannot easily manage the file when everything is a
> > smooshed together. Does anyone know of an easy way to add back newlines
> > to the file so I can tidy it up by hand?
>
> As someone mentioned, ObConf (actually, libXML) does this when the XML
> is mal-formed.
>
> Dana
>
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