Moving windows to adjacent workspace and focus

[Kahn Jonas]

Hi everyone

I have registered to the list to ask about a focus problem. I have
already mentioned it on the forum, and the only answer was:
"I think it's hard-coded ... You may have better luck by asking in the
xfce mailing list."
So here I am copying the original forum post.


I have recently installed Linux Mint Debian XFCE, and I have a problem
that I can't solve:

When using the keyboard shortcut I have associated to 'Moving windows to
*** workspace' (where *** can be upper, bottom, left or right)
I expect:
* that the window that is moved is on top on its new workspace
* Most importantly, that the focus to be kept on the window that is
moved no matter if there are other windows on the final workspace, and even if
the mouse is not on the moved window.

What I get:
* The window may get under another window on its new workspace
* Another window may gain focus on the new workspace, even if the mouse
was on the old window to begin with.
This is especially annoying when I move a window several workspaces on,
which I do often: after the first step, I'm not moving the right window!

Of course, my options include:
* 'Focus follows mouse', with no waiting time
* 'Activate focus stealing prevention'

Are there any options to get this behaviour (without messing with
fundamentals like focus on mouse)? By the way, I think that's the usual
behaviour; notably that's the one I get with LXDE and Gnome.

Thanks for the help!
Jonas