focus issues

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote
(on Tuesday, 06 May 2003, 09:11 PM +0200):
> 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.

epistrophy is a program that provides keybindings to certain net_wm
actions, primarily related to window operations (cycling through them,
raising, making omnipresent, iconifying, shading, etc) and workspace
operations (cycling through workspaces, sending windows to them, etc),
in addition to allowing the user to configure keybindings to launch
programs (I have keys bound to launch xlock and providing bindings for
altering speaker volume, for instance).

It was written originally to provide keybindings for openbox, but the
author realized that since it was operating by setting net_wm hints, it
could be used in any net_wm compliant window manager. It works great
with xfwm4! Unfortunately, the current source is only available with
openbox, and I had to hack at it a little to be able to install it
without openbox. If I get a chance, I'll email the author and see if he
could provide a standalone package of it. (I know that blackbox users
testing the current development branch like it, and this would also
provide a benefit there.)

I can't seem to reproduce the problems I'm having "on demand" -- but I
have noticed even today that flipping through the workspaces using the
scroll wheel on my mouse sometimes exhibits the behaviour. I'll try
updating from CVS to see if it's fixed.

> 
> 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?

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew at weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net