Re: focus app with one mouse click?

[Björn Gohla]

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On Monday 05 November 2001 18:25, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:51:18 +0100
> > From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= <b.gohla@gmx.de>
> >
> > i find it very irritating having to double-click an applications
> > miniwindow to have its menus and panels mapped. where do i have to look
> > to make this behavior configurable (to a single button-2 click perhaps) ?
>
> Well,  you're free  to have  it as  you want,  the more  so  since the
> sources are available  to let you change it, but  note that that's the
> way  it's  done  under  NeXTSTEP.  A single  clic  on  an  application
> miniwindow would just orderFront: it. A click-and-drag would allow you
> to move it anywhere you want on the desktop.
i am well aware that it is not the way NeXTSTEP does it, but still having 
used kde for a while i find double clicks rather awkward.

> To answer  to your question, I  think it's a matter  of windowmaker. I
> guess  it's  the  window  manager  who gets  these  events  first  and
> translates/transfers them to the  application. It could easily convert
> a single-click event to an application activate event.
someone more knowledgeable may provide some more insight here, but as far as 
i can see, the window manager sends a WM_TAKE_FOCUS message to the client, 
when it thinks that client should receive the focus, which then in turn has 
to request that its menus and panels be mapped. i know this because the 
window manager i use (larswm) focuses the miniwindow on single click, but the 
menu only appears after another double click, (which only works partially). 

btw, i know quite well that i am free to implement this, my question was 
rather what source files to look at.
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