[openbox] Focus on raise

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Mon Oct 29 16:36:15 EDT 2007


On 10/29/07, Chris Wareham <chriswareham at chriswareham.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently upgraded to Openbox 3.4.4, and noticed a change in
> behaviour. Previously, when a window was raised it gained the focus,
> whereas now the window is still raised but focus remains with the
> previous window. This is apparent when I use the nc console program that
> comes with the NEdit text editor to open a file as a new tab in an
> existing session. I had a look at the example rc.xml file and the
> release notes (very comprehensive by the way!) but could not see
> anything that would affect the focus behaviour. Just in case it's
> relevant, I don't use "focus follows mouse pointer". Is there any way of
> restoring the previous focus behaviour?

No, sorry, there's not.  While it was nice for a few apps, it broke
too many others.  NEdit should use EWMH hints to activate the window
rather than just raising it.

dana



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