Re: FVWM: automatically focus transient windows

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:08:18 +0200

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?

Done. The GrabFocusTransient style does this in the development
sources.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Sun Apr 11 1999 - 19:09:03 BST

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