Re: CirculateRaise not acting as expected

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 03:45, Steven Bergom wrote:
> First off a quick congrats to all the guys who worked to get
> WindowMaker 0.92 out the door.
>
> Second, I have an issue with raising windows to the fore when
> they receive focus.  Previously when I Alt-tabbed between windows
> the currently focused window would stay in its position in the
> stacking order until I explicitly initiated a command to bring
> it to the fore (Mod1+up) or send it to the bottom (Mod1+down).
> Now, however, when focus is placed on a window it is immediately
> placed on top regardless of whether CirculateRaise is set to
> NO or YES.  I've seen this behavior with and without the Switch
> Panel enabled.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior?  If so is this a bug or is
> my understanding of the meaning of CirculateRaise incorrect?

The later. CirculateRaise applies only while switching from one window to 
another when Alt-tabbing. Once you release Alt-tab, the selected window gets 
raised no matter what that option is set to. I think it was always like this. 
If not it was a bug.

> I've found the place in the source code that enables the "don't
> raise that window unless I say" but if anyone has any ideas that
> don't involve patching the code I'd be much obliged.
>
> Steven Bergom

-- 
Dan
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