Re: Full screen windows auto raise using sloppy focus

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias
> <eloi-hNPPdhAcac5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 01:17:29AM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> >> > A title bar in a maximized xterm doesn't bother.  The problem is that
> >> > solution isn't useful with i.e. mplayer.
> >>
> >> http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions#ToggleDecorations
> >
> > I'm lost.  Again, decorations don't bother me.
>
> I interpreted your reply to mean that the unfullscreen and maximize
> wouldn't work for mplayer because you don't want the title bar on it,
> which the toggledecor/disabledecor actions would solve.
>
> >> vi keys are useless if you're not using the qwert* layout. I trivially
> >> know it won't make everyone happy since it won't make me happy :P.
> >
> > Well that's a point.  I've never thought about it, how do those that
> > don't use the querty layout manage in unix userland?  What do you you
> > use in your shell?  Arrows and Del keys?  What text editor do you use?
> > What keys do you use to navigate ncurses interfaces?  Anyway, in menu
> > openbox case (and fluxbox) you're condemned to move your hand out of the
> > keyboard to reach arrow keys.  Why to make others suffer your fate? :-)
>
> Vim allows you to rebind keys, and ctrl-c isn't really a unix thing
> anyway. ctrl/alt-[uyk] are all still reachable with one hand, as are
> ctrl-[ae]. ctrl-b isn't, but that one's already uncomfortable on
> qwerty.
>
> In my shell I use alt-[chtn] (ijkl in qwerty) as arrow key analogues.
>
> Actually I don't think changing the keybinds dynamically for menus
> would be that much work, the code is pretty straightforward iirc, I'm
> just lazy. ;)
>
> Assuming we do allow people to customize the bindings, it doesn't
> necessarily mean they'll rebind it to alphanumeric keys, so disabling
> accelerators should be a separate option. Thinking about it a bit
> more, we don't need to disable them. Even if you use hjkl for
> movement, we can allow shift-letter to activate the accelerator (or
> any other modkey). So we could have a <acceleratorKey> which defaults
> to being empty (current behaviour), and then a bunch of <moveUpKey>,
> <acceptEntryKey> etc. (which could also accept modkeys if you prefer
> to leave accelerators unshifted.) Does anyone see any problems with
> this scheme? (Note that ctrl is already taken, it means to activate an
> entry and leave the menu open.) (Would anyone want to customize this
> as well?)
>

Or you could make menu items pick a different letter than the hotkeys, when
they are picking one automatically. And ignore the hotkey if the menu file
specified it and it conflicts. That's a little simpler and might be enough?


>
> If anyone wants to have a go, look at event_handle_menu_input in
> event.c, and add a bunch of options in config.c in the <menu> section
> or <keyboard> section, not sure which makes more sense right now. Eg,
> the keepMenuOpenKey (ctrl) applies to mouse events as well.
>
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