[openbox] Focus between X displays

[Simon Perry]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone had any insight or opinion regarding my
question?

If I've been unclear or the question is not appropriate for the list,
please let me know.

Cheers.

On 06/09/10, Simon Perry wrote:

| Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:47:36 +1000
| From: Simon Perry <openbox at sanxion.net>
| To: openbox at icculus.org
| Subject: [openbox] Focus between X displays
| 
| Hi everyone,
| 
| I've recently moved to Openbox from plain old Metacity, and I'm loving
| it so far.
| 
| After a lot of doc reading and Googling, I have been unable to determine
| a way to change certain behaviour which I was used to in Metacity.
| 
| Consider this setup:
| 
| - 2 separate X displays (NVidia card but not using TwinView)
| - Display 0 runs normal desktop stuff
| - Display 1 runs a fullscreen RDP session to a Windows VM
| - Sloppy mouse focus or focus-follows-mouse is not enabled
| 
| In Metacity, whenever I moved the mouse between displays, focus was
| given to that display. Even if there wasn't a window on the display
| that you moved to, it would always cause the other display to lose
| focus.
| 
| Very nice behaviour. I did not need any "sloppy focus" or follow-mouse
| setting enabled for this to work (I hate sloppy focus except for this
| one case) -- I always knew which "screen" had focus based on where the
| mouse was.
| 
| Anyway, in Openbox, display 1 is "unmanaged" (i.e. no Openbox running on
| display :0.1). When I move the mouse from 0 to 1, the fullscreen app on
| display 1 gets focus - no drama there.
| 
| When I move back to display 0, display 1 keeps focus and I have to click
| somewhere on display 0 for display 1 to lose focus.
| 
| It appears the only way to consistently change focus when moving between
| displays is to enable follow mouse for everything, and I can't see any
| way of emulating Metacity's behaviour.
| 
| If anyone could let me know how to achieve Metacity-style behaviour for
| this, if it's in fact possible, that'd be appreciated as I can't stand
| sloppy mouse for everything. :)
| 
| Cheers.

-- 
Simon Perry (aka Pezz)