On Sunday 08 Apr 2012 11:11:49 James Knott wrote:
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Different strokes for different folks! I've been using focus follows mouse for many years (pre-Linux) and along with being able to disable "auto raise" is one of Linux/UNIX's selling points over MS Windows, IMHO.
Choice is the name of the game!
However, when I click on something, it's because I want to use it and it should have focus. As an example, yesterday I was using Wireshark. I clicked on the link about filters and didn't see the browser. I then had to check the open Firefox windows to find the one that had a new tab with the desired info. There is simply no excuse for that sort of behavior. I should not have to search for something I just opened. I don't recall ever seeing that behavior in KDE3 nor in Windows or OS/2.
Two things could be happening here: 1) Either FF doesn't ask KWin to raise its existing window when a new tab is opened by an external application - I do not know how Wireshark tells FF to open a browser window - does FF come to front when clicking a link in something else, for example, Thunderbird? If these are different it implies the problem is in Wireshark's invocation of FF. 2) Alternatively, FF does not update the window timestamp when a window is opened by Wireshark. This is how the focus stealing prevention logic (in KWin 3 and 4) knows when to focus and bring to front a 'new' window and when to leave it in the background so it can't swallow eg your password keystrokes. HTH Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org