[openbox] sloppy focus "stealing"

[Folderol]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:21:31 -0700 (PDT)
Mithat Konar <mithat_konar at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > From: Andreas Fink <andreas.fink85 at googlemail.com>
> > To: openbox at icculus.org
> > Cc: Mithat Konar <mithat_konar at yahoo.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [openbox] sloppy focus "stealing"
> > 
> > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
> > Mithat Konar <mithat_konar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> >>  In both cases, having a "snap to new window" or even "snap 
> > to default widget on new window" would prevent this. Is this possible with 
> > OB?
> [snip]
> > I don't know if I got you right, but maybe the placement policy helps you:
> > <placement>
> >   <policy>UnderMouse</policy>
> > </placement>
> > 
> > This policy places new windows under your mouse cursor.
> >
> 
> While it's not exactly what I has in mind, I'll give this a shot as it will at the very least help the issue. What I had in mind was letting new windows/dialogs/etc. appear where they wish, but as soon as they appear to have the mouse snap to the new window/dialog/etc.'s location ... in other words, window leads mouse rather than mouse leads window.
> 
> -M

It's been a while since I've played with openbox scripts, but I'm pretty
certain this can be done. Certainly you can discover the window geometry and
I'm *fairly* sure you can move the mouse pointer.

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