hi there > It used to be the case that when you were using point-to-focus and > a window was uncovered (for example, if it was beneath another > window that was unmapped), the uncovered window would receive > focus. That behavior has changed in recent Sawfish versions (I'm > running 1.10.9); to get focus you have to move the mouse out of > the underlying window and back in again. > > I fully understand that there is a security issue here; if a > malicious program unmaps a window at exactly the wrong time, you > could wind up unintentionally typing into the wrong place. > However, in my environment I don't have to worry about that risk, > and the new behavior is quite troublesome to me. In one case my > screensaver activated above a full-screen window; when I > deactivated the screensaver I was left in a situation where I > couldn't get focus into the window so that I could make it go > away. I almost rebooted my computer before I found a workaround. > > I did a bit of searching in the docs and the config optoins but > couldn't find a way to return to the old behavior. I'd love to > turn it off entirely, but if I can't do that I'd like to at least > have a short timeout (perhaps 2 seconds) after which the new focus > would happen. > > Is there an option to control this behavior?
I can't remember exactly because it was some time ago, but I had a somewhat similar problem (not 100% sure it was the same problem, though) and I could fix things with this patch: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2009-November/msg00155.html HTH ciao gabriele -- Sawfish ML
