Re: [gcmd-dev] another one little usability issue

[Michael]

Antono,

As a workaround you can try the 'Home' key (also called Pos1, the one that 
moves the cursor to the top position e.g. in text documents or excel sheets, it 
use to be around the page-up/down keys) that brings the focus back. 

rev 1209 has no focus initially, here. It gets focus when i <tab> to right 
pane, but still has none in the left pane when i switch back.

I think it's a bug in interaction with windowmanager (is that still gtk?) about 
how initial window settings are interpreted.

We should be aware that there is a great variety of windowmanagers for linux, 
like the KDE one, enlightenment, fvwm...the price is that there's some lack of 
compatibility, and we would have to find out a failsafe way to do it. I run 
wmaker and that's rather far away from gnome-sawfish.

A good start may be Gimp again, the window management settings in Preferences 
(see screenshot). As you can see they use 'hint' feature (normal/utility) and 
explicitly activate the focused window. Maybe worth a look. 

As a user, i can adjust class specific settings to not let the window bind 
keyboard or mouse, but there's no way to say 'force focus'. It is possible with 
the KDE one, though, and maybe i could set up  something in ~/.Xresources. But 
it should be done by gcmd itself of course.
Related issue may be that under KDE, inline renaming with SHIFT F6 doesn't get 
focus, but it does under wmaker.

gimpwin.png
Description: PNG image