Re: cwm(1), when closing a window, pass focus to prev in stack

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 07:57:02AM +0000, Job Snijders wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 09:49:42AM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> > This is a ping of a proposal I made last year.
> > 
> > Current behaviour: when you close a window, whatever other window the
> > pointer lands on gets the focus.
> > 
> > Behavior proposed: when you close a window, the pointer warps (passing
> > the focus) to the previous window in the stack.  Conveniently, raise it
> > first, otherwise if it's behind another window the latter will get the
> > focus instead.
> > 
> > The downside of this change is that when closing a window using the
> > mouse, by clicking on a dialog "Close" button or "Quit" in the
> > application menu, the pointer will jump while you're manually
> > controlling the mouse, what can be confusing.  Personally I find this
> > less undesirable than randomly giving input to any client each time I
> > close a window, as happens with the current behavior (which in some
> > cases could lead to dangerous mistakes).
> 
> This seems fine to me, in the sense that it perhaps makes
> opening/closing a bit more symmetric.
> 

One annoyance of mouse focus is to loose the focus when un-maximizing.
cwm solves this by dragging the pointer (client_ptr_inbound()), keeping
it on the active window when moving, resizing or un-maximizing.  The bug
I mention here (second paragraph):

  https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178203533768497&w=2

is a side effect of this feature.


-- 
Walter