[openbox] Citrix Thin Client Project - Focus Issues

[Mathias Dufresne]

Hi,

It is not completely clear for me but I think your issue is to send
"alt+tab" keys to Windows because for now when you type "alt+tab" the keys
are used by OpenBox, switching between your Citrix client window and other
windows hosted on Linux side.

If I'm right, you just have to tell OpenBox to ignore "alt+tab", so the
keys won't be grabbed by OpenBox and will be thrown to the active window,
which could be your client. Then perhaps this client will be able to send
the keys to the remote system, which in turn should switch its own
windows...

To do that, have a look into your ~/.local/openbox/rc.xml file and look for
something similar to that :
    <!-- Keybindings for window switching -->
    <keybind key="A-Tab">
      <action name="NextWindow"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-S-Tab">
      <action name="PreviousWindow"/>
    </keybind>

It's an extract from my own rc.xml, A-Tab = Alt+Tab in rc.xml syntax.
Change that to something else :)

Then to push that system wide rather than only for your own account I think
it's in /etc/xdg/openbox directory you'll have to push that modification.
This should confirmed, I'm not sure ;)

Cheers,

mathias



2014-04-01 11:21 GMT+02:00 Emilien RICHARD <emilien at erichard.fr>:

> Hello,
>
> I'm working on a Linux-based thin client project. I'm experiencing some
> issues with Citrix Receiver 13.0. For your information, Citrix Receiver is
> used to access Windows applications in SaaS mode.
>
> Alt-Tab doesn't work, I can select the window but it doesn't get the focus
> and it isn't put foreground. On the attached screen shot (
> http://hpics.li/b3ef9a8 ) you can see what happen. The window 2 is the
> one I have selected with Alt-Tab and the window 1 is the one which has
> focus and is on top. On the panel at the bottom of the screen you can see
> that the window 2 seems to be on top but it doesn't and with the panel the
> click on a window raise the window without problems.
>
> Citrix Receiver isn't an open source software so I can't see how it handle
> windows. I'm trying to modify openbox, I want to program a workaround that
> force to raise the window on Alt-Tab. Where can I start looking in the
> sources to force it?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Emilien RICHARD
>
>
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