Want focus to go to new windows

[davefg]

Hi:

New to fvwm, lots of questions, but the question-du-jour has to do with changing focus.
I want focus to change to newly created windows. For example, I create a new xterm, I want focus to go there automatically. If I invoke emacs, I want focus to go to that emacs window automatically.

.fvwm2rc-theses has “Style “*” ClickToFocus”. This seems to work in getting focus to change when I click in a window. Is there a way to keep that in place (I don’t want SloppyFocus or MouseFocus) but have new window creation supercede it?

Thanks !

[TF1]

Normally this behavior is introduced by UrgencyFunc and EWMHActivateWindowFunc in /usr/(local)/share/fvwm/ConfigFvwmDefaults.

Perhaps your config overwrites these functions…

Here two links for better understanding:
How FVWM starts applications
Stock functions changing focus

Hope this helps a little.

TF

[RichardGv]

Huh, do you think FPGrabFocus / FPGrabFocusTransient style would help?

New normal or transient windows with the FPGrabFocus or FPGrabFocusTransient style automatically receive the focus when they are created. FPGrabFocus is the default for windows with the ClickToFocus style. Note that even if these styles are disabled, the application may take the focus itself. Fvwm can not prevent this.

[TF1]

@RichardGv

Huh, do you think FPGrabFocus / FPGrabFocusTransient style would help?

Try it …

Open FvwmConsole and enter Style * FPGrabFocus Then open a xterm and check if it works.

[davefg]

I stuck “Style * FPGrabFocus” in .fvwm2rc-theme, started a new xterm, put focus on some other window, then tried to go back to the new xterm by simply clicking inside it somewhere. No luck. I tried putting “Style “*” FPGrabFocus” (note the quoting aroung the *), still no luck.

I am able to get this behavior in konsole. Seems to be the default behavior.

[TF1]

@davefg

I stuck “Style * FPGrabFocus” in .fvwm2rc-theme, started a new xterm, put focus on some other window, then tried to go back to the new xterm by simply clicking inside it somewhere. No luck.

You wrote the whole time about .fvwm2rc-theme. Do you use Fvwm-Themes? If so, Fvwm-Themes is very special. Many things are configured differently than in the default/most Fvwm configs.

In every config I used this behaviour isn’t normal. In my current config I have changed only the UrgencyFunc]DestroyFunc UrgencyFunc
AddToFunc UrgencyFunc

• I Iconify off
• I Raise[/code]
  Which Fvwm version do you use?

@davefg

I tried putting “Style “*” FPGrabFocus” (note the quoting aroung the *), still no luck.

The quoting around * isn’t needed anymore since … I don’t know.