[openbox] openbox vs. fluxbox

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:55:45 -0400
Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:

| On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:29:10PM EDT, openbox at cstuck.ath.cx wrote:
| > Hi,
| > 
| > I recently switched from fluxbox to openbox - mostly because fluxbox does not recognize my "arrow-up" key any more - no clue why.
| > I really enjoy using openbox bc it has nice features I miss in fluxbox.
| > 
| > BUT:
| > There are really great features in fluxbox I absolutely miss in openbox!
| > Maybe other people can agree and might want to work on that in the future.
| > I guess some should not be so hard to implement.
| > 
| > 
| > 1) Focus model: Bot WM can set the focus model to "floppy-mouse" so the focus stays under the mouse when another window appears underneath it.

This would be nice.  But it is also a problem if a window 'shrinks'
itself smaller so that the mouse pointer is no longer in it. However I
have grown used to the focus not changing.  So much that I hate 'pidgon'
popping up a window while I am typing and my text getting sent as a
reply to the Instant Message it shows!

As such while "floppy-mouse" sounds like a good idea. I would like to
have 'exceptions' to prevent focus changing unexpectedly.


| The nice thing in fluxbox at this point is that I can tell it not to raise the window, once I clicked in it - which is really nice when you have a terminal in front of your web browser, want to select something without the terminal to disappear... only to show one example
| 
| You can do this, you just have to change your mouse bindings.  They are actually lot more flexible in Openbox.
| 

I re-designed this myself.

I did not want raise on clicks within the window.
But did what it on a click in border or title, or 'Alt-click' in window.
You can grab the <mouse> section form my RC file...

   http://www.cit.griffith.edu.au/~anthony/public/anthonys_openbox_rc_xml.asis




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