Re: raising windows on button release

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

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.
[...]
> 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