Re: focus problem (was: Re: [dwm] Wide Layout Patch for dwm-1.2)

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_10kloc.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:10:48 +0200

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:47:19AM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just in case this was ambigous: the problem described has nothing to
> do with the wide layout patch. It exists with unpatched dwm. I just
> reproduced it with 1.6 from hg tip.
>
> Jukka Salmi --> dwm (2006-08-31 19:34:20 +0200):
> [...]
> > There seems to be a focus problem; I'll try to explain how to reproduce
> > it:
> >
> > - close all clients
> > - select the first tag
> > - start a client which matches a rule with isfloat==True
> > - place the mouse cursor over the client
> > - select the second tag
> > - start another client, e.g. a term
> > - select all tags by calling viewall()
> > - select the third tag (which has no clients)
> >
> > The focus is now still on the client with the second tag...

I can confirm this, but I dunno yet why this happens. Actually
when looking into the source, I see much potential to
simplify the complete focus/reorder/restack handling. I'll keep
that in mind, and I plan todo that before 1.6.

Regards,

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