[openbox] Focus between X displays

[Dana Jansens]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Simon Perry <openbox at sanxion.net> wrote:
> Thanks heaps for the reply.
>
> On 16/09/10, Dana Jansens wrote:
>
> | If I were setting this up, I'd use
> | twinview/xinerama/whatever-it's-called-these-days.  Then you could
> | just alt-tab or whatever to other windows.
>
> On screen 1, I have a fullscreen RDP session for work as I have to use
> Outlook etc. When that screen "has focus", then it makes sense that
> things like alt-tab work there and not globally.
>
> I've tried all the combinations of TwinView etc, and I find that having
> two separate X screens work the best for the setup I've described
> (personal opinion of course).
>
> | I don't quite understand the focus paradigm of "click to focus on all
> | windows except one which has sloppy focus, and then turns sloppy focus
> | on for one more focus switch".  Maybe you need some hooks and changing
> | config options on the fly or something.. but this sort of thing can't
> | be done directly I think with Openbox as it is right now.
>
> I see. I guess it's just something I got used to with Matecity.
>
> The main thing that is annoying is that the fullscreen RDP window on
> screen 1 always steals focus, and I quite often forget to click-to-focus
> when I move back to 0.

Thinking about it a bit more.. You could use wmctrl to move focus to
some window of your choice.  If you had something listening for the
mouse entering the display, it could send focus back to the
most-recently-used window.

> | If you have the monitors together as one screen, and Openbox is
> | running on both, you could also use a "Unfocus" keybinding to move
> | focus off the window in question.  There's lots of actions available
> | that might help you out, but they don't work across separate X
> | displays/screens.
>
> I'll do some reading on this and perhaps reconsider my setup, cheers.
>
> --
> Simon Perry (aka Pezz)
>
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