focus issues

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Matt,

I tryed hard to reproduce the problem you described w/out success.

1) I run xfwm4 alone, no taskbar, no panel, no nothing
2) I run an xterm.
3) I use focus follow mouse
4) Focus is set onto the terminal
5) I switch to the next workspace using Alt+Right
6) I click on the desktop
7) I switch back to the first desktop using Alt+Left
8) The focus is correctly set to the terminal
9) I retry with 2 terminals
10) I retry several times
11) Everything works fine
12) I believe the problem is with epistrophy because it's the only thing
that differ between your config and mine
13) FYI, epistrophy must have a window mapped off screen to be able to
grab keys
14) Focus may very well go to that window.
15) Retry w/out epistrophy
16) That's all I can tell :)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 18:27, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> -- 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?
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
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