[E-devel] Focus & raise behaviour problem in E 16.5

[David N. <dn...@wa...>]

Hi all,

Not sure where else to post this, if it's off-topic for the list
I hope ye don't mind & point me elsewhere.

I've come across something which is quite alloying in E 16.5 with
respect to my personal focus & raise settings. Basically, my
focus settings are=20
- Focus follows mouse clicks
- Clicking in a window always raises it
- Only new dialogs whose owner is focussed gets focus
- raise windows on focus switch

And then for the focus list
- display & use focus list
- include sticky, shaded & iconified windows in focus list
- focus windows while switching
- raise windows after focus switch

In short, I would like focus to follow mouse clicks, and I=20
would like to be able to focus any window by clicking in it. I=20
also don't want new windows or dialogs interfering if I'm=20
typing without looking at the screen :)=20

The problem (finally) is that when a window is raised but doesn't
have the focus (for example, a pop-up window or a dialog from an
app which isn't focussed), then clicking in the window doesn't
focus it. And clicking in the focussed window doesn't raise it.
Given that I have "focus follows clicks" and "click always
raises", I would expect both of these to work.

To get the focus on the dialog, I have to click in the frame of
the dialog window, and to raise the original focussed window, I
have to first focus the dialog (clicking in the frame), and then
click back in the original window. I find this extremely
annoying, and I figure that it is probably a bug. It may be
normal behaviour, though.

Could someone let me know if this behaviour is normal, and if not
how I can fix it (either through settings or with a patch)?

Thanks a lot,
Dave.

--=20
David Neary,
E-Mail: dn...@wa...
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