[openbox] Firefox add-on popups

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Thu Mar 31 20:15:07 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:

> Piscium wrote:
>
>   I have been using FollowMouse for years and never had a problem like
>   you describe. Below is an excerpt of my rc.xml.
>
> Thanks, that was a big clue. The difference between your settings and mine
> is that I have unfocusOnLeave set and you don't. Changing that fixes it and
> lets me leave followMouse on too. I find it a bit disconcerting that I can
> type while the mouse is on the root window and the text appears in the last
> window I was in, but I think I can live with that.
>
> I guess what's happening is that the window pops up, but with all my mouse
> focus settings it immediately loses focus, since the mouse isn't over the
> popup, it's over the button. And this particular window disappears when it
> loses focus.
>

Do you have a Focus or Activate action in your "client" mouse bindings?
Maybe not having clicks try to focus the firefox window would help also, it
sounds like an awkward race between firefox and openbox doing things.


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