Re: Menu placement

[Torsten Sadowski]

Hi Adrian,

If I understand you right, "enter-exit" is not "sloppy" but the classic
"strict" focus-follows mouse. And yes, the autoraise behavior is a
additional nuisance.

Torsten

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Adrian Robert wrote:

> > I'm using WindowMaker on Debian with sloppy focus. That leads to the
> > problem, that the application menu vanishes if I cross another window
> > on
> > my way from the app window to the menu. The only app that differs is
>
> I've also been having focus problems with GNUstep apps.  I had thought
> maybe the problem was I'm using sawfish and switching to windowmaker
> would fix it but I guess not!
>
> Specifically:
>
> In "sloppy" focus mode (sawfish calls it "enter-exit"), my app menu
> will disappear once I leave the app main window.  If I set "enter-only"
> focus, I can keep the menu there if I stay only on the root window with
> the mouse after leaving the main window.  In either case, I also get
> auto-raise behavior (which I don't want) for application main windows,
> which sometimes interacts badly with (I guess) sawfish, causing
> flashing back and forth between windows when they overlap.
>
> If I switch to "click to focus" mode, my app menu will stay there, but
> it does not respond to mouse clicks.  (I think they are always
> interpreted as "focus" clicks and not being passed to the app.)
>
> I am wondering:
>
> - Is there any way to disable the "autoraise" feature (which is usually
> something managed by the window manager anyway, not the app)?
>
> - Is there any way to cause the app menus to be mapped as transient
> dialogs (or whatever they are called in X-speak) that do NOT disappear
> if their parent window loses focus?
>
> I am hoping that the answer to all of this is not, "You MUST use
> click-to-focus mode and pass-first-click-to-application in order to use
> GNUstep."...
>
> tia,
> Adrian
>
>
>
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