re:"Re: FVWM: focus and pointer" (fwd)

From: Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:40:11 -0700 (MST)

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> > Sergios> I just installed fvwm 2.0.41. is it possible to bring a
> > Sergios> window to top (focus) without the mouse cursor moving to
> > Sergios> the top left corner of the window?
> >
> > There is a Focus-patch for 2.0.41 which is built-in to 2.0.42. It
> > lets you specify the position to warp to (with the Focus function):
> > Focus 0 0 ul corner
> > Focus 50 50 center
> > Focus 100 0 ur corner
> > Focus 0 100 ll corner
>
> It is nice that you keep bringing this up each time somebody
> asks about Focus, but what this poster would really like (and me too! :)
> is for Focus not to mess with the mouse at all, or at least have that
> be an option in some way.
>
> -Eli

There a patch that I put together which I distribute with FvwmIconMan which
gives Focus an integer argument. Focus 0 doesn't warp the cursor, and Focus 1
or plain Focus does the standard behavior. It comes with no guarantees, but
I use it with no problems with 2.0.42.

FvwmIconMan comes with fvwm2.0.42, and the patch for 2.0.42 can be found at
mahler.cs.arizona.edu in /pub/FvwmIconMan/fvwm_patches.

I would definitely like to see this added to fvwm. I think the problem is that
the Focus function is to heavyweight. I think it should be split into
functions which just changes the focus, and a function which warps the cursor
to a given location in a particular window, and then you could get the
current behaviour by just making a compound function of the two.

bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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