Re: No focus on map hint

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:29:34AM +0100, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> What is wrong with using the ICCCM-provided mechanisms for this ? 
> The globally active input model allows clients to decide themselves if they
> want to take focus or not.
> 
> see http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#s-4.1.7
> 

You have to be able to "focus" all windows in the WM, whatever the
input hint is set to. Otherwise you can't keyboard navigate some apps
(e.g. xclock).

Aside from keynav, it just looks like a bug to users if they click a
window and it doesn't become active, or they open xclock and it isn't
initially focused.

Basically the idea of an unfocusable window is wrong, no such thing
should exist, other than very special-purpose stuff like input method
status windows (which should most likely be override redirect
anyhow). But a window that doesn't focus *on map* is useful.  We could
redefine the input hint to mean that, but introducing a new hint seems
cleaner.

Havoc