[openbox] Citrix Thin Client Project - Focus Issues

[Emilien RICHARD]

Hi,

I tried to remove A-Tab and S-A-Tab bindings and it works well for 
Citrix windows as Citrix Receiver handles Alt-Tab binding internally, 
but I can't go back to another window.

It's a good temporary solution, but I'll try to find how to solve this 
issue by debugging openbox.

Thank you for your quick answer.

Best regards,

Emilien RICHARD


Le 01/04/2014 18:00, Mathias Dufresne <mathias.dufresne at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 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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