xfwm4 focus enhancement request

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Fri Nov 3 20:23:36 CET 2006


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Xavier Otazu wrote:
> 	Hello:
> 
> 	I would like to propose the following enhancement for the focus
> policy of xfwm4.
> 
> 	When going to a new workspace give the focus to the window that
> has the focus the last time the user was on this workspace.
> 
> 	Example: I am working on workspace 1 with two windows, a text
> editor and a xdvi window. The mouse is on the text editor, but the
> focus is on xdvi. I change to workspace 2. I change again to workspace
> 1. I propose the focus is on xdvi eventhough the mouse is on text
> editor.
> 
> 	I propose this enhancement because it is more comfortable to
> the user to change from a workspace to another (for example using
> keyboard shorcuts) and return to the previous workspace with the same
> state that it was previously. If it were not this way we were forced to
> explicitly change the focus again (using either the keyboard shorcut
> or moving the mouse).
>

It works like that in click to focus mode. In focus follow mouse, the
focus goes to whatever window is under the pointer, that's how focus
follow mouse works.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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