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

[Mark Bloch]

Well according to the debug info, it's a feature :

Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) focus_set_client 0x400003
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) ignoring enters from 2374 until 2374
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) EnterNotify mode 0 detail 4 serial 2374 on 400003,
focusing window
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) ignoring enters from 2973 until 2974
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) Going to try activate new window? yes
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) Want to focus window 0xa00003 at time 688833456
launched at 0 (last user interaction time 688832174)
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) Not focusing the window because it is on another
desktop and no relatives are focused
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) Focus stealing prevention activated for (Untitled) at
time 688833456 (last user interaction time 688832174)
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) ignoring enters from 3101 until 3100
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) Frame for 0xa00003 has focus: 1


Looking ( briefly ) at the code,the code is at client.c ( lines 780 - 792 )
.
I can't find any nice way around this ( I can always delete it and recompile
) .

Any thoughts ?

-Mark.

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:

> 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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