> Guys are you sure you wanna remove that feature? I want it off.
I remember now a few cases where this undesirable behavior embarrassed me :-) Sometimes I let pidgin open at workspace 6 and go on with life (so it is somehow hidden from other curious people), but when someone send me a message wmaker would jump automatically to the new window in wksp 6. This already happened in front of important people I was talking too, so I would like to turn it off with Martin's patch. I simply don't like being preempted this way. If I am working at some desktop typing something etc, there is where I want to stay until _I_ decide to switch. > This is what the freedeskop standard states about _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW > http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s03.html#id2522117 > > This would for example break pagers that sends the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW > to change active windows if they are on different desktops. Pagers are a non-issue for wmaker. And the page says: "Depending on the information provided with the message, the Window Manager may decide to refuse the request (either completely ignore it, or e.g. use _NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION)." so ignoring it does not break any standard, AFAICS. We are completely ignoring it _if_ it happens in another workspace. > This seems like a bug in firefox more than anything... and if this > change is made it should be optional I think. With the default option > to keeping it like it is... firefox and pidgin, and probably others. In principle any application that can open a new window will be on that list. But like I said, I don't like being preempted if I am doing something else. Perhaps it could be made a config option in the Attributes menu, in case someone likes to be preempted. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
