Havoc Pennington wrote:
Hi, There are some cases where you do not want to raise (or focus) a window on click, even though you normally do. For example a click that begins a drag-and-drop operation, or a click that selects (or perhaps middle-click-pastes) some text should not activate the window.
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Nautilus used to have a hack using a Sawfish-specific feature; IIRC the hack went like this:- a window could have a special WM_PROTOCOL indicating it would self-raise on click
That might be interesting and would probably handle most interesting cases.
Has anyone else thought about this issue?
Currently, icewm will not raise a window when Ctrl key is held on the click. It will also raise the window only for the button #1 (configurable)
Slightly offtopic, for me a good file manager will use right button instead the left for drag and drop. (The left button must be used for drag-select, just like text selection).
Mark