Re: Window focus after a window is closed

Ole Edsberg wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm very happy with Window Maker (0.91.0 on Debian 3.1), except for
>one problem. Sometimes when I have three or more windows in a
>workspace and close one of them, focus goes to a window that is not on
>top, often resulting in me sending keyboard commands to the wrong
>window.
>
Something similar happens to me after I:

1. minimize all windows on a given workspace
2. do a "show all", which results in un-minimizing all windows

The bottom window is focused rather than the top one.

This is all the more confusing when you use maximized windows.. It can 
be rather annoying if you use a keyboard shortcut to quickly close a 
window and accidentally close another.. or even have disastrous results 
if you send a CTRL+C to the wrong xterm and brutally terminate a 
long-running job by mistake..

> I use "manual input focus mode", "automatically focus new
>windows" and "raise window when switching focus with keyboard".
>
same here..

>An example of a situation where this happens is when I start three
>xterms (they will overlap because of lack of space), issue a single
>Alt-Tab and then close the topmost window.
>
>Is there a configuration variable I can set to make sure that the
>topmost remaining window gets focus when a window is closed? 
>
I assumed it was a bug.. In my example above & with maximized windows I 
couldn't think of any good reason why the focus would go to a window 
that's not even visible..

>I
>couldn't find anything here:
>http://windowmaker.org/documentation-userguide-chapter4.html. Or
>should I make a feature request?
>
>I also seem to recall that I didn't have this problem with 0.80.
>
Yes you're right.. I just ran a quick test on 0.80.2 using your scenario 
w/o problems.. So though they're in the same area.. it looks like we're 
dealing with two different problems after all :-(

My problem appears to be that after a "show all" the bottom-of-the-stack 
window is focused rather than the top one.

>
>Thanks!
>
>Ole Edsberg
>
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