Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2358
gnomepager_applet doesn't preserve window focus on desktop switch
Last modified: 2015-05-21 11:07:57 EDT
I have four desktops configured on my system, and use gnomepager_applet to switch between them. I also use E in click-to-focus mode. If I click on a given window to give it focus, switch to another desktop, and then switch back, the window which had focus on that desktop no longer does; instead, some other window on that desktop now has focus. This causes the windows on that desktop to restack, which is a real pain.
The problem here is that the panel is also a valid window to focus in click-to-focus mode, so clicking on the pager leaves the focus on the panel. ------- Additional Comments From 06/09/99 16:58 ------- Yes, it's a tricky situation. The only solutions that seem possible would be to: o Make it possible for the pager to control focus. In other words, if I click on one of the mini-desktops on the pager (to switch desktops), the "mini-window" under the pointer gets focus; one click does both. Makes switching desktops faster... o Have the pager send a "don't remember that I got focus" hint to the window manager, which will then give focus to the window that had focus *before* the pager. Of course, this means that the WM needs to be able to understand (and act upon) such a hint. Personally, the first solution is the cleanest (and probably easiest) to implement.
This seems to be handled correctly by sawmill. Sawmill, seems to keep track of the last focused window not in the skip list for Alt-Tab on a desktop and switch to that window as focus window when going to the desktop.
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/631a5a600096fa0d804ff5bd6fc27ccb9b3f034f Issue 2358 - better handling of server url parsing in osc login