focus issues

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Tue May 6 21:11:02 CEST 2003


Matt,

I don't know about "epistrophy" nor what it really does, but if you try
without and if that proves to work, then it means that "epistrophy"
isn't supported.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 19:32, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> I'm using xfwm4 from 20030428; I'm running without xfce/taskbar/iconbox;
> just the window manager (and mcs, of course). I am using epistrophy
> (from openbox) to provide keybindings, such as switching between
> workspaces, shading windows, switching between windows.
> 
> I've setup xfwm with the following focus settings:
>     Focus follows mouse
>     automatically give focus to newly created windows
>     raise window when clicking on application window
> 
> When working on the same workspace, everything works as expected. When I
> switch *between* workspaces, things get a little fuzzier.
> 
> I can't always reproduce it, but it appears to primarily occur when I
> switch workspaces using keybindings. "It" is the following: even though
> my pointer is over a particular window, it doesn't receive focus; this
> happens even when that window is the only one present on that workspace.
> I have to either click in the window or switch to it using a keybinding
> in order to grab focus.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this? If so, has it been corrected in CVS, or do
> I need to keep observing until I can reproduce it?
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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