Raise or lower a window shortcut

[Michal Szymanski]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:38:48PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Michal Szymanski <msz at astrouw.edu.pl> wrote:
> > There was a few (namely, three) short threads about this topic back in
> > 2005. The topic is:
> >
> > Can we have (back) a single keyboard shortcut, configurable as othe
> > shortcuts are, to perform a function which was called in old WMs
> > "RaiseLower", i.e. raise window if it is obscured at any part by other
> > window(s), otherwise lower it
> [...]
> > So the question is: does the actual version (4.8 I believe) have it back?
> 
> It's not in 4.8 but I just added that in git master.
> 
> Reason I never took thtim to add that is because I do not find
> raise/lower very convenient with the focus transition model as it is
> in xfwm4, not even in focus-follow-mouse mode (and even less in
> click-to-focus mode)...

Thanks a lot for good news, Olivier. I am looking forward to retry XFCE :)
Does "being added to git" mean that it will appear in next version of XFCE
- 4.9? 4.8.x?

I am an old man :) Doing mostly keyboard stuff - programming, writing
documents. Being able to manipulate windows with a single key (my favorite
is the left "windows" key on M$-Windows keyboards) has always been a great
help.

As for the focus, the very first thing I do when configuring new Desktop is
to set "focus-follow-mouse" mode and disable "click raises the window".
The idea that, e.g. clicking the mouse button and dragging it to select
text (for copying it into another window), would raise this window, thus
usually obscuring my "working" window, has always made me furious.

What is the "focus transition" mode?

regards, Michal.

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  Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw dot edu dot pl)
  Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND