focus issues

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote
(on Tuesday, 06 May 2003, 09:19 PM +0200):
> I would suggest trying the latest CVS though. It's always a good idea to
> try the latest CVS.

I grabbed CVS yesterday, and I think I can now tell you how to recreate
the problem.

1. open a program on a workspace; remember where it's open. (In my case,
   I first noticed it on an aterm window I had maximized.)
2. go to the next workspace
3. click on the root window
4. move the mouse to a point within the general area in which the window
   on the other workspace is open
5. switch back to the original workspace

The window will no longer have focus, nor will it receive focus, even if
the mouse is over it. You need to move the mouse off the window and back
onto it.

It seems to me that proper behaviour would be for the last window to
have focus on the workspace to receive focus when switching back to the
workspace, or for the window under the pointer to receive focus when
entering the workspace.

By the way, I received the same behaviour whether I was switching to the
workspace via mouse scroll or via epistrophy.

> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 21:11, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > 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