focus stealing prevention in xfdesktop

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 2/23/2006 9:33 AM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>> To achieve what you want, you may use the following (which is perfectly standard):
>>>
>>>   gdk_x11_window_set_user_time (GdkWindow, GDK_CURRENT_TIME);
>>>
>>> That will tell the WM that you mean to focus the window anyway even if focus prevention is enabled.
>> Ah, cool, thanks.  Which GdkWindow should be set as the parameter here?
>>  I assume xfdesktop's vroot window, since that's really the only
>> persistent window, but technically it's the menu shell window that
>> causes the event.
> 
> Well, maybe I missed the point. If you map an existing window (such as 
> MCS plug-ins windows for example), then GTK doesn't update the user_time 
> as there was no real user activity on the widnow since the last unmap. 
> As a result, the window will unlikely be focused.
> 
> To avoid that, prior to show the window, you should reset the user_time 
> to GTK_CURRENT_TIME (actually 0) on the corresponding GdkWindow so that 
> the windows gets focused.
> 
> Now, I'm not sure what you mean by xfdesktop window as the vroot window 
> is unlikely to be mapped/unmapped.

I think I'm just confused.  *Where* does this function get called?  In
the app that initiates the button click, or the app that pops up a new
window?

	-brian

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