[openbox] I have a problem with focus not given to new lunched windows.

[Dana Jansens]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Mark Bloch <mark.bl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just would like to add that is seems that a new window is given focus only
> if I'm not inside an application.
>
> for example: if I'm on desktop 1 ,no application running on that desktop,
> and try to open an application on desktop 3, it gives focus to the new
> application.
>
> if I'm on desktop 1 inside firefox ( for example ) and try to open an
> application on desktop 3 it doesn't give that application focus.
>
> is that a feature or a bug ? if a feature can I change it ?

probably a bug.


> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Mark Bloch <mark.bl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thx for the tip, I've gone ahead and installed openbox from the git repo.
>> It seems to work but not very reliably, in fact it works only with one
>> program ( lilyterm , and even with that, not always ) but not with :
>> mousepad, firefox, geany or chrome .
>>
>> is there any log files or anything I can look into in order to find out
>> why it's not working?

run openbox --debug and look at its stdout, or in ~/.cache/openbox.log


>> - Mark .
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Mark Bloch <mark.bl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I have a problem with my openbox configuration.
>>> > I have these options in my rc.xml file:
>>> > <focusNew>yes</focusNew>
>>> >
>>> > and I have this keybind:
>>> > <keybind key="C-l">
>>> >       <keybind key="f">
>>> >         <action name="Execute">
>>> >           <command>firefox-bin</command>
>>> >         </action>
>>> >       </keybind>
>>> > </keybind>
>>> >
>>> > under <applications> I have:
>>> > <focus>yes</focus>
>>> >
>>> > and this:
>>> > <application
>>> > name="firefox*"><desktop>1</desktop><raise>yes</raise></application>
>>> >
>>> > .
>>> >
>>> > Everything works fine, when I press the keybind combo, firefox is
>>> > lunched on
>>> > desktop #1, the problem is, it doesn't get focus!
>>> > I have to switch manually to desktop #1.
>>> >
>>> > I want it to get focus when it's lunched, is there something I'm
>>> > missing?
>>>
>>> This was brought up in the past on here, or on IRC.  The <focus> flag
>>> will cause openbox to move to the application's desktop in our git
>>> version.  In 3.4.x it doesn't do this.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Dana
>>>
>>> > Thanks for the help,
>>> >                              Mark Bloch.
>>> >
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