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Windows are focused while passing through #39

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I like this tool a lot, however there is an issue that makes its use quite
difficult. When I traverse the list of windows to find the one I want to
see, the ones I simply pass through are actually focused. This has three
undesired effects:

1. If starting from a window A, I select a window C passing through B, the
"last visited" window will be set to B. In other words, if I press
Super-Tab again once, I will see B, not A. But I don't care at all about B,
I just passed through it to find C. I believe this is the problem mentioned
in issue #25.

2. After finished selecting a window, the Z-order of all windows are passed
through is affected. I only wanted to raise *one* window and leave all
others unaffected. Instead, the windows I passed through have now higher
Z-order than the window I started from.

3. If some window I pass through is minimized, it will be raised. 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open 5 windows, say A to E. The top one is E and the bottom one is A.

2. Keep Super pressed and press Tab 4 times.

Now A is on top but below is B,C,D and E is last. This is really
counter-intuitive behavior. I only wanted to select A, not bring B,C,D up.
Moreover, if B,C,D are minimized, they will be raised. 

I think the best would be to "highlight" the window while passing through
and only focus to it when Super is released. This is exactly what metacity
does. Raising all other windows is counter-intuitive.

I'm using superswitcher 0.6 (deb package) on ubuntu 9.04.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chatz...@gmail.com on 1 May 2009 at 5:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yeah, I've noticed this too. I think you're right -- somebody just has to write 
the 
patch.

Incidentally, I think that issue #25 is a separate issue.

Original comment by nigel.ta...@gmail.com on 17 May 2009 at 3:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'm sorry, I meant issue #24 (Super+TAB does not act like ALT+TAB) might be 
related,
even though I'm not sure.

Original comment by chatz...@gmail.com on 17 May 2009 at 10:51