[openbox] focus for a new windows (>1)

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Mon Nov 28 10:40:01 EST 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Iakov Davydov <dav01 at myths.ru> wrote:
> Hello,
> In my rc.xml I have the following lines:
>    <keybind key="W-Return">
>      <action name="execute">
>        <execute>lxterminal</execute>
>      </action>
>    </keybind>
> If there is no lxterminal windows yet then pressing W-Return opens new
> lxterminal and focuses it.
> But if there is already one lxterminal window exist and it is not
> focused than focus stays within the other window.
> This happens not only with lxterminal but also with google-chrome
> window (but doesn't happen with lxterm).
> I suppose this happend after update to version 3.5.0.
> Also the focus settings:
>   <focus>    <focusNew>yes</focusNew>    <followMouse>no</followMouse>
>    <focusLast>yes</focusLast>
>     <underMouse>no</underMouse>
>     <focusDelay>200</focusDelay>
>     <raiseOnFocus>no</raiseOnFocus>
>   </focus>
>
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. open lxterminal
> 2. open other window (and focus it)
> 3. press W-Return
>
> What should happen:
> new lxterminal should start and receive focus
>
> What happens:
> new lxterminal starts but doesn't receives focus
>
> Any suggestions?

This was just discussed on the mailing list last week or so. There's a
fix in git.


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