[openbox] Focus on raise

[Chris Wareham]

Dana Jansens said on 29/10/07 20:36:
> 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
> 

Hi Dana,

Thanks for the explanation, I'll take up the suggestion of using EWMH
hints on the NEdit developers list. In the meantime I'm getting into the
habit of hitting Alt-Tab every time I use nc to open a file!

Regards,

Chris