Re: Focus Problem with version 1.3.7

Yes, IceWM sometimes loses focus and then cannot find it. Unfortunately
I have no idea when it happens exactly. I'm using default focus behaviour.

Somebody should fix that :)



On 15.12.2011 22:32, David J Iannucci wrote:
>> What does not work is this situation.
>>
>> 1)  focus is on WINDOW A.  I hit a keyboard combination and WINDOW B
>>     pops up in front of WINDOW A and under my cursor.  I hit something
>>     on WINDOW B and it closes WINDOW B and the mouse is left over
>>     WINDOW A but WINDOW A does not take focus back.
>>
>> I thought for sure 'StrongPointerFocus=1' would be the answer, but
>> this setting isn't making a difference.
>>
>> Is there something I am missing?  Basically I have settings windows
>> that pop up in a CAD environment and when I close them, my focus
>> doesn't return.  I have to take the cursor OUT of the window and back
>> in to get it to take focus (or of course click on the window).
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> This sounds like the same thing I complained about earlier last year.
> I'm amazed that not enough people are troubled by this for it have been
> fixed already. Oddly, it hasn't bothered me lately, because my work has
> changed, and I no longer use the application (kmail) where this was a
> major problem. Whatever I'm doing now doesn't raise the issue for me,
> but I'd still like to see it fixed, because it's a really fundamental
> kind of bug for a window manager to have.
> 
> See below for an excerpt from my list posting about this.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010, at 16:22, David J Iannucci wrote:
>> So... I think I can state this more confidently and accurately now.
>> Note that I'm now running 1.3.6, but symptoms are the same.  Also note
>> that I am using icewm as the WM within a KDE 3.5.x desktop
>> environment.
>>
>> When some window, often a popup/dialog of some sort gets closed, it
>> really appears that the next window to focus input on is chosen *at
>> random*. In any case, the next window focused in such a case is often
>> one that I have configured with ignoreQuickSwitch, and I have it that
>> way because I don't EVER want those windows focused unless I click on
>> them with the mouse!
>>
>> You can see that something is wrong, because in one of these
>> situations, if I pull up the QuickSwitch immediately after closing the
>> dialog, the window with ignoreQuickSwitch=true set is actually _in_
>> the QuickSwitch list!  If I then choose something (anything), and pull
>> up QuickSwitch again, the ignored window is properly ignored.
>>
>> This is quite irritating for someone like me who drives by the
>> keyboard a LOT.  When I'm in my email client, I often do a delete
>> operation that uses a popup dialog.  If I push the dialog buttons
>> using keyboard shortcuts, very often I next find my keyboard talking,
>> not to my email, but to a different window, and I have to QuickSwitch
>> my way back to the email.
>>
>> There's no doubt that this is a bug.  The way it needs to work is that
>> when a focused window is closed/unmapped, the focus needs to return to
>> whatever held focus BEFORE that window.  *Recursively* back!
> 
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