On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:15:45AM +0200, Kai.Grossjohann_at_CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:
> I have hacked ctwm to automatically focus transient windows. I.e.,
> when a window is first created (or mapped, not sure which -- I don't
> really grok X11 programming at all), it is checked whether it is a
> transient window. If it is, it is focussed.
>
> This is wonderful if you use MouseFocus or SloppyFocus and bring up
> popup windows, for example with Alt-F in Netscape.
>
> Fvwm has a different way to solve this problem: by telling all
> Netscape windows to be ClickToFocus, you achieve a similar result.
>
> But it is not quite the same.
>
> How about implementing this simple change for Fvwm, too?
>
> Suggested improvement: only assign focus to the transient if it is a
> transient_for the currently focussed window.
Good idea.
> Suggested improvement 2: keep a history of focussed windows, like
> this: transient window 1 appears, gets focus. User does something,
> which causes transient window 2 to appear, which also gets focus.
> User does something, which causes transient window 2 to disappear.
> Then, transient window 1 should get the focus again.
The history is already there. The new bit would be to transfer the
focus back to the previous window.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 08:01:51 BST