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Allow window focus cycling without necessarily raising the chosen window
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Darren Salt 2006-06-30 00:24:36 CEST
I sometimes find it useful to change focus without raising the new window. Usually, I use the mouse for that (focus-follows-pointer), but being able to do so via the keyboard seems useful.
Comment 1 Darren Salt 2006-06-30 00:27:40 CEST
Created attachment 634 
Implement no-raise-on-cycle functionality.

1. Ctrl while holding down Alt to select the window & avoid raising it

2. New shortcut which cycles windows but doesn't raise them.
   (Bug: you can't let go of any modifer key.)
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-06-30 09:34:10 CEST
Not sure about this one, it really looks like bloat to me ;)
Comment 3 Darren Salt 2006-06-30 17:46:41 CEST
Not to me. I'm using it to keep gxine's window on top while switching between a few other windows. (Try it with the inactive opacity and you might begin to see its usefulness.)
Comment 4 anonyhole 2011-10-13 02:24:21 CEST
(In reply to comment #3)
> Not to me. I'm using it to keep gxine's window on top while switching between a
> few other windows. (Try it with the inactive opacity and you might begin to see
> its usefulness.)

As a workaround, you can use Xfce's "Always on Top" feature.  Right-click the gxine's titlebar and check "Always on Top".  Now, no matter what you do, it stays visible!

Bug #1968

Reported by:
Darren Salt
Reported on: 2006-06-30
Last modified on: 2020-05-21

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Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
CC List:
2 users

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