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Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay on a window for a while.
Anybody else misses the feature? what's the workaround?
thank.
PS my fluxbox: Installed: 0.9.14-1.2 Candidate: 0.9.14-1.2
Running Sid, same version of fluxbox, and I can get that behavior by choosing Configuration > Focus Model > Auto Raise.
As said in OP, I can't get auto raise works for fluxbox. Anybody can do that?
This is what I tried:
create a new user. In its home directory, there are no .x* .X* files, nor the .fluxbox directory.
echo exec fluxbox > ~/.xsession
then startx.
Ie, in above X/fluxbox setting, everything is taken from system. However, having choosing Configuration > Focus Model > Auto Raise, I still can't get the auto raise feature. So I think that this issue is related to how grml configure X/fluxbox by default.
Please help. I can't do without the auto raise feature. Thanks
Incoming from T:
[redirected from gmane.linux.debian.user, because I now think that this might be a grml specific question]
Nope.
Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay on a window for a while.
Anybody else misses the feature? what's the workaround?
It's still there. I think when you turn off "Click to raise" then you can enable auto-raise.
This is what I tried:
create a new user. In its home directory, there are no .x* .X* files, nor the .fluxbox directory.
echo exec fluxbox > ~/.xsession
then startx.
Ie, in above X/fluxbox setting, everything is taken from system. However, having choosing Configuration > Focus Model > Auto Raise, I still can't get the auto raise feature. So I think that this issue is related to how grml configure X/fluxbox by default.
Please help. I can't do without the auto raise feature.
Well, that's overstating it a bit. CTRL-Left (or is it ALT-Left?) goes to the next workspace or window. Sorry if this is a little confused; I went back to Blackbox and now use bbkeys for that feature.
Try this:
mkdir ~/.config mkdir ~/.config/fluxbox mkdir ~/.config/fluxbox/styles cp /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu ~/.config/fluxbox/menu cp /usr/share/fluxbox/styles ~/.config/fluxbox/styles
Find a fluxbox init file (locate fluxbox | grep -i init), copy it to ~/.config/fluxbox/init, then edit it changing paths to yours in ~/.config, edit your preferred style file, edit your menu file.
Fluxbox/blackbox are far more hand configurable and better behaved than the monsters other distros offer.
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:19:14 -0600, s. keeling wrote:
Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay on a window for a while.
Anybody else misses the feature? what's the workaround?
It's still there. I think when you turn off "Click to raise" then you can enable auto-raise.
Tried that, no work -- turning off "Click to raise" will not raise the window even after mouse click -- even worse. :-)
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:47:40 +0200, T wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:19:14 -0600, s. keeling wrote:
... I notice one most important feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay on a window for a while.
Anybody else misses the feature? what's the workaround?
It's still there. I think when you turn off "Click to raise" then you can enable auto-raise.
Tried that, no work -- turning off "Click to raise" will not raise the window even after mouse click -- even worse. :-)
I've confirmed that this is not my configuration issue. I found that the grml 0.7 Live-CD's fluxbox lacks the auto raising window capability as well.
The good news is that the problem is fixed in grml_0.8. Confirmed with grml_0.8-rc1.
thanks Mika.
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