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In article <4vj9q7$i9e@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au>,
	aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson) writes:
> I got sick of the ancient twm so I downloaded fvwm2 and compiled it on a sparc 10...
> (I chose fvwm since it has been recommended to me by friends who use Linux).
> 
> I played around with the .fvwm2rc file and enabled ClickToFocus, but the added
> behaviour of raising the window when it was focused was more annoying than I first
> thought (ie. the standard stupid Windoze/MacOS behaviour).
> 
> So, how do I get fvwm2 to focus windows when I click in them, WITHOUT raising them ?
> Is there an option which does this already and I have missed it somewhere ?
> If not, how do I add/hack/etc this behaviour or modify ClickToFocus ?
> 
> (additionally, since I like the lovely feature of fvwm virtual screens/space,
> is it possible to automatically focus the window under the pointer, whenever
> the screens/space are switched, _while_ using something like ClickToFocus ? )
> 

With fvwm2 the autoraise is done by the separate FvwmAuto module (man page text
below).  If you don't want autoraise, don't run FvwmAuto in your .fvwm2rc file.

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NAME

FvwmAuto - the FVWM auto-raise module   

SYNOPSIS

FvwmAuto is spawned by fvwm, so no command line invocation will work. An appropriate
invocation from fvwm looks like: 


Module FvwmAuto 200


or, from a menu: Popup "Module-Popup" 
        Title   "Modules" 
        Module  "GoodStuff"     GoodStuff 
        Module  "NoClutter"     FvwmClean 
        Module  "FvwmIdentify"  FvwmIdent 
        Module  "Banner"        FvwmBanner 
        Module  "Debug"         FvwmDebug 
        Module  "SaveDesktop"   FvwmSave 
        Module  "AutoRaise"     FvwmAuto 200 EndPopup 

The numeric argument is required. It specified how long a window must retain the keyboard input
focus before it is raised. The delay is measured in milliseconds, and any integer 0 or greater is
acceptable. 

  

AUTHOR

FvwmAuto just appeared one day, nobody knows how. 

aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson) writes:
>I played around with the .fvwm2rc file and enabled ClickToFocus, but the added
>behaviour of raising the window when it was focused was more annoying than I first
>thought (ie. the standard stupid Windoze/MacOS behaviour).

# From my .fvwmrc
AutoRaise -1  # time it takes to raise the window on top. -1 is newer
ClickToFocus

Hi,
Tero Pelander (tpeland@antares.utu.fi) wrote:
> aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson) writes:
> >I played around with the .fvwm2rc file and enabled ClickToFocus, but the added
> >behaviour of raising the window when it was focused was more annoying than I first
> >thought (ie. the standard stupid Windoze/MacOS behaviour).

> # From my .fvwmrc
> AutoRaise -1  # time it takes to raise the window on top. -1 is newer
> ClickToFocus

nope, doesn't do it for me -- AutoRaise seems to override ClickToFocus and
puts me into follow focus.

to all on this thread:

instead of arguing which focus method is superior you should accept other
persons likes and dislikes -- and just come back to the original question:
how is the following behavior achieved:

- a window gets focus with a click-action in it (perhaps click into the client
area) -- but it doesn't raise
- a window raises with another click-action (perhaps click onto some border
elements) -- it may receive focus too but it it needn't be, you then have an
additional possibility for personal configuration

if someone knows an answer to _this_, please step forward -- even if it
requires some code hacking.

\bye{Lutz}

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