[openbox] focus followMouse issues with vmware

Mike Hokenson openbox at gozer.org
Fri Apr 4 15:49:49 EDT 2008


On Friday, April 04, 2008 at 09:33PM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> This was done more as a test after I noticed windows sometimes not 
>> being focused when moving the mouse around between windows in a more 
>> typical usage. Not sure I understand, or maybe I miscommunicated 
>> something here. If I have a grouping of 3-4 windows in a close area and 
>> move the mouse in a quick circular motion, on occasion the window where 
>> the pointer is doesn't get the focus.
>
> This is not by design, assuming nothing but mouse movement happens, ie no 
> windows magically appearing or closing, etc.

No, nothing else is changing.

>> The problem seems to happen more if there's another action associated  
>> with the mouse movement, like taking mplayer out of fullscreen and the  
>> pointer is moved to another window. My desktop is very fixed, so I know 
>> where everything is.
>
> This is controlled by <underMouse>.

I'm moving the mouse to another window immediately after taking mplayer out
of fullscreen, it's not just appearing over another window.

Again, this just seems to make the above, if they are related, more
prevalent.

> What version of Openbox are you using?

3.4.7-pre3



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