xfwm: Auto-focus on window creation ? :)

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Danny,

To be able to detect that the user is actually typing, the window
manager would have to grab all keys... Doesn't sound too reasonnable to
me (at least because if the WM is busy, the events won't be forwarded to
the application until the WM forward them)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 22:01, Danny wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've been thinking about this for some time now ^^
> 
> I usually have set "auto focus for a new window" in xfwm.
> 
> If I have a program that takes a while to start, I will do other things
> in the mean time. Most of the time involving some typing...
> 
> As I am typing, somewhen the other program is finished loading and pops
> up, eating the remainder of the keys I typed (because it got the focus
> while I meant the other-previous- window).
> 
> So I thought what about checking if there was any keyboard input in the
> last few secs, and if so, then don't focus new window, else do focus the
> new window...
> 
> This is not perfect, but it would help ;)
> 
> Then again, I could drop the habit of doing something else while waiting
> for programs to load ^^
> 
> hmmmmm :)
> 
> cheers,
>    Danny
> 
> 
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