[openbox] Changing highlighted window on taskbar when using Alt-Tab

[Simon Clubley]

On 18 October 2011 16:07, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Simon Clubley
> <simon.clubley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am using Openbox 3.5.0 and fbpanel 6.1.
>>
>> When Openbox is configured to raise windows while switching when using
>> Alt-Tab, the highlighed window remains unchanged on the taskbar until
>> Alt-Tab is released.
>>
>> Before posting, I checked the archives and enhancement requests and
>> found this has been discussed several times, but without any obvious
>> resolution.
>>
>> How difficult would this be to implement ?
>>
>> I noticed one enhancement request in
>> https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4449 had supplied a
>> patch, but that patch uses the old style Openbox function calls. There
>> wasn't any feedback on the patch so I don't know if the approach in
>> that patch is ok or not.
>
> Yeh I finally looked at the patch this weekend but got caught up in other
> bugs and didn't think much about it.  I think the way its currently done is
> close but not quite right, and commented on the bug.
>

I've read the comments thanks and I've now experimented with the Openbox code.

What I did was to find the path in the focus_cycle() code which my
configuration triggers and added code to emit NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW.

Based on your comments, I can see why this by itself is certainly not
the correct general solution, but this appears to be working for me
for my specific Openbox configuration and Openbox usage pattern,
although I expect it not to work correctly with a different
configuration.

Thanks,

Simon.

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Simon Clubley
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