[openbox] [RELEASE] Openbox 3.3.990 (3.4 preview release)

[Dana Jansens]

On 5/22/07, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Keith W <n4phth4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > - When un-minimizing a window via a ROX-Filer pinboard icon the window
> > is not focused; maybe this is an old behavior since I don't often use
> > the pinboard and my brain's memory cache is about 8kB...
> > - Various other focus quirks probably the result of new options I
> > haven't figured out yet...
>
> Further investigation has shown this...
>
> FOCUS: Want to activate window 0x60001d with time 497010090 (last time
> 0), source=user allowing? 1
> DEBUG: net_active_window for 0x800010 source=unknown
> FOCUS: Want to activate window 0x800010 with time 136853600 (last time
> 0), source=user allowing? 1
> DEBUG: Uniconifying window: 0x800010
>
> The first one has a timestamp from an X event.  The second one is the
> timestamp in the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW request from Rox, when you click
> on the icon in the pinboard. I'm not sure if they are setting it to
> that garbage deliberately or if it's just random memory bytes.  But
> that's very not allowed.  If they don't want to use a valid timestamp
> then it *has* to be zero.  That's why the window isn't being
> activated.  It's saying you clicked the icon a few days ago, and
> you've focused other things in the meantime.  Fun.
>

Yeah, kinda spamming the mailing list, that's what the bugtracker is
for but oh well!

I think that if the source indication is 0, which it is, we can assume
they aren't setting the other fields.  They *should* be setting every
field they don't use to 0, no matter what, but we can work with it..
The window gets focused like you would expect after that change.

Dana