On Wed, 9 May 2018 07:57:56 -0700 Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> said:
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 11:31:30PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > I don't want this either. > > > I want the window under to stay under and not exist as far as focus and > > > input are concerned, the way E has behaved for me for literally 20 years > > > now. > > > > e never behaved that way. if you have pointer focus the window the pointer > > was over would get focused. always. you could have it autoraise or not, but > > you're imagining things because i never wrote any such feature like this. > > no wm i have ever seen does this either. :) > > Ok, so basically you are confirming that > https://photos.app.goo.gl/GFht7beUYWbobxpP6 > is a bug in 0.21.11 and that oh wit. now i see it.. as your mouse goes over "Terminal" it focused "apps - ..." ... the pointer should/would focus the window it is over, even if that window is partly obscured by something on top. > 1) I'm the first one to see it, maybe because no one is using that > release with focus follow mouse? > > 2) it's not going to get fixed because 0.21.x is a dead branch correct. the answer is "use 0.22". we don't have the manpower to support multiple stable branches going back in time. we maintain one (the last release stable branch). :( > 3) Is it a known bug that got fixed in 0.22 or we don't even know what the > bug was and how it got fixed/went away? i never saw it. you may be unlucky and happen to have a situation that brings it out, but as part of wayland work there has been also work with event areas etc. and something for wayland may have broken this etc. but it has since been fixed... in 0.22 :) > Related questions: > 4) if I start building 0.21.10, .9, .8 until the introduced > bug goes away, am I going to lose my ~/.e profile and all my settings > every time, or is it at least backwards compatible if I stay within > 0.21? you shouldn't. e is like your favorite browser there - chrome. you cant' use configs too new for the browser (i've hit it before thanks to rsync :)) configs are one way upgrades. you could manually downgrade configs. it's possible with some time and effort using the eet tool. but older code doesn't know how to downgrade config from some e version in the future it knows nothing about. > 5) if my profile is going to get lost, can I at least somehow backup all > my saved window settings, which literally take me 30 to 45mn to > painstakenly recreate one by one? yes. eet. tool. you can decode/ecode config from the files to text files, edit them, splice them together then encode/insert them again. > Thanks, > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet > cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP > 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
