Focus bug or feature?

Xavier Otazu xotazu at cvc.uab.es
Thu Feb 10 13:27:55 CET 2005



	Hi:

	I have some strange behaviour when changing window focus using keyboard shorcut
(Alt+Tab) or lowering windows.

	Situation 1:

	I am working with 'nedit' (the most lightweight and full-featured text editor
I've seen). I open a Find window (Ctrl+F) and insert some text, which is find by
nedit. I do Alt+Tab to change focus to nedit, and I change text. But when I try
some nedit shorcuts, they do no work. If I try to save (Ctrl+S) it introduce
some estrange codes to text, and if I try Ctrl+F again, the find window does
not appear. To solve this problems, I have to change window focus using mouse.

	Situation 2:

	I have Firefox on the lower window stack. It is partially overlapped by a
'xfce-note', and it is again partially overlapped by a rxvt terminal. If I
click note (Firefox loses the focus) and place the mouse above the area where
note overlaps Firefox and I do Ctrl+NextPage (my xfce shorcut for lowering
windows) the result is that Firefox gets raised ! (I know it is raised and note
not lowered because Firefox appears above rxvt).

	If instead of clicking note I place mouse above it (Firefox does not loses
focus) it works right.


	Some ideas about these 'problems'?


	Talking about shorcuts, I would also like to request an enhancement for xfce
4.3 version. Actually we can define our keyboard shorcuts to manage windows.
Would it be possible to include in these shorcuts some mouse buttons? That is,
now i can define the Ctrl+NextPage shorcut to lower windows. Could it be
possible to define it as Ctrl+Button3? Actually this behaviour is defined by
Ctrl+Button2, but it cannot be changed by user.


	As you see I like to work with shorcuts to improve speed when managing windows.

cheers,

Xavier



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