[NTLUG:Discuss] Blackbox

[Steve Baker]

severian at pobox.com wrote:
> Howdy,
>   Are there any blackbox users out there who can help?  It seems like a 
> very nice small window manager, but there is one "bug" that I have not 
> figured out how to fix.  When the mouse cursor moves out of the terminal 
> window, then characters I am typing no longer get sent to the window.  I 
> bet this is a feature, although I can't imagine why anyone would want 
> it.  I am trying to use blackbox as the window manager on a minimal 
> system that is mostly just a a Freeswan box.
>   The default focus model seems a little odd, but I have figured out 
> part of my problem by web searching and reading the man page.  If the 
> keystroke problem is addressed, then I missed it.

Most window managers have a bunch of different modes to choose from.

You appear to have 'focus follows mouse' - the other common ones are
'click to type' (where you have to click in the window to make it be
the active one - it then stays active no matter where the mouse points
until you click on another one) - and the one I use is the one KDE calls
'lazy focus follows mouse' - where the window the mouse is over is the
one accepting keystrokes (no clicking required) - but if you move the
mouse out of the window, it continues to accept keystrokes until the
mouse is hovering over another window - so if the mouse strays out
of the window and is over the desktop background, you can still type.

I don't know what tool you'd use to change blackbox's default though.

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