Re: FVWM: AutoRaise

From: Paul D. Smith <psmith_at_BayNetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 14:28:40 EDT

%% Regarding Re: FVWM: AutoRaise;
%% "Jose M. Pereira" <pereira_at_cocaina.inesc.pt> writes:

    jmp> A change to FvwmAuto I still have to test is to reset the
    jmp> autoraise timer whenever a new window is created (that is,
    jmp> FvwmAuto must spy AddWindow messages).

I'd love this.

I don't have too many problems with menus, 'cause I don't use Motif
menus much, but I have many overlapping windows. Often what will happen
is I'll put a cursor on window A (almost always Emacs) and quickly hit a
key which causes another window B to deiconify under my mouse and now be
selected: I want the new window to be on top.

But FvwmAuto then raises window A when the autoraise timeout expires,
and I have to send it to the background to see window B again.

Another thing that happens which is also annoying is that I'll move my
mouse to the title bar to left-click the top window into the back, but
I'll overshoot briefly onto another window or the root. Then I move my
mouse back to the top window, which causes the autoraise timer to start,
left-click it to the back. Then when the autoraise timer goes off, it
comes back to the front. Sometimes I can get into this rhythm where
I'll keep left-clicking a window into the back and FVWM keeps stubbornly
raising it again for 4 or 5 times! :)

I want autoraise to basically keep track when a new window is selected,
and junk any old autoraise in progress and start a timer for the newly
selected window. It seems to do this normally (if you move to window A
then back again it doesn't raise window A), but not when windows are
explicitly deiconified or raised.

Does that make sense? I'd be very willing to alpha- or beta-test any
patches to FvwmAuto you have :)

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