[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000080]: focus follows mouse

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000080
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Reporter:                   edscott
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000080
Category:                   xfwm
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   none
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-01-15 14:19 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-01-24 15:35 GMT
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Summary:                    focus follows mouse
Description: 
Focus will not follow mouse while doing a drag and drop. This forces user
to focus by click after drop. Since classic mouse-follows-focus window
managers like twm do not exhibit this behaviour, it definitely looks like
a bug. 

Changing the mcs plugin text from "focus follows mouse" to "focus follows
mouse (except while doing dnd)" would clarify behaviour.
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 GammaRay - 2004-01-15 15:01 GMT 
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I'm not so sure. for me, using xffm and rox-filer, the window you are
dragging to focuses after you drop.

I think this behavior is better because when you are dragging and you
escape out of the drag, it makes more sense to have the window you were
dragging from focused.

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 edscott - 2004-01-15 16:27 GMT 
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Depending on the situation the behaviour can be better or worse. If you
drag from a file manager to a gvim window, for example, you want the
window which received the drop to be focused so you can start editing
right away. 

I filed the bug report because I noticed the different behaviour in "focus
follow mouse" in twm. So it would be necessary to clarify, at least, that
the option in xfwm has exceptions.

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 olivier - 2004-01-15 18:19 GMT 
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Adding the comment to "focus follows mouse (except while doing dnd)"
doesn't make much sense to me (you don't plan to list here all the cases,
do you?)

xfwm4 ignores focus changes caused by mouse grab/ungrab.

Cheers,
Olivier.

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 edscott - 2004-01-15 19:08 GMT 
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Adding the comment would not make sense since, as you point out, all the
other cases would have to be listed too. But a checkbox to
ignore/not_ignore changes of focus by grab/ungrab would be nice. Yeah, ok,
that's looks more like a feature than a bug. I'll shut up now.

regards

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 GammaRay - 2004-01-15 20:43 GMT 
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When I drag to opera,gedit or the gimp it focuses *after* the drop. No
clicking, nothing extra.

I'm using CVS as of the 4th.

edited on: 01-15 20:43

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 olivier - 2004-01-24 15:35 GMT 
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Hey Edscott,

I'll set this on "won't fix" because I don't see any problem here, and I
think xfwm4 is doing it the right way.

Cheers,
Olivier.