Automatic focus settings

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

I just did some more work on this. You may want to sync to the latest
(ie revision 18834 at this time of writing) svn trunk and see if that
helps.

It seems to me that the current implementation is pretty close to the
standard now.

PS: It requires that you sync to the latest libxfcegui4 (either from the
4.2 branch or from the trunk) and xfwm4 from the trunk (these changes
won't be backported to 4.2).

HTH
Olivier.


On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 17:24 +0100, Harold wrote:
> I've set this option ~6 months ago but I have yet to find the first
> application that actually uses the _NET_WM_USER_TIME correctly. Almost
> the apps that I use don't use it AFAICS. Perhaps that I just don't use
> the applications that DO use that property.
> 
> Anyway, it's generally a bad idea to rely on the assumed correctness
> of other programs...
> 
> Look: I'm not a programmer, so I may have a really blurred vision of
> what might be possible or not... 
> 
> I just find it hard to believe that an implementation where newly
> created processes get timestamped when created and compared to the
> time stamp of the last (user)focused window isn't possible, or maybe a
> fairly simple new feature...
> 
> Again: I don't want to sound like I know it all better than you all,
> I'm just suggesting something to expand the friendliness and usability
> of XFCE...
> 
> -H-
> 
> Olivier Fourdan wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 16:02 +0100, Harold wrote:
> >   
> > >  I want to restart this discussion because it's the only thing that 
> > > keeps getting me annoyed when using the best desktop environment 
> > > available...
> > >     
> > 
> > I think it's been covered already. What you want is focus stealing
> > prevention. There is a (documented) hidden option for that in xfwm4 4.2.
> > Support has been improved in 4.3.
> > 
> > The system, however, requires that the applications properly set the
> > property _NET_WM_USER_TIME on user input. Not all applications are
> > compatible with this protocol (and even among those which are
> > compatible, some don't set the property accurately IMHO).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > 
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