On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, C L wrote:
> Using debian unstable - ion3 20050116-1
>
> I think I'm seeing a bug with a focus issue in the workspace
> notification popup "act: <workspacename> that ions puts up in the
> top/left corner, altough it could be because of the way ion3 is
> implemented. But here is what I notice anyway:
>
> I'm using multiple workspace, and I run gaim in one workspace
> defined this way:
>
> -- Gaim settings
> -- use a seperate window for buddy list and conversations
> -- put the buddy pounce notification on the console
>
> defwinprop{
> class = "Gaim",
> target = "gaim"
> }
>
> defwinprop{
> class = "Gaim",
> role = "buddy_list",
> target = "gaim"
> }
>
>
> defwinprop{
> class = "Gaim",
> role = "conversation",
> switchto = true,
> target = "gaim-conversation"
> }
>
> I use the "message notifier" plugin, which sets the "URGENT"
> window manager hint and prepends the number of messages awaiting
> in the title bar. Now when this happens, I see that ion puts
> a notification at the top/left of the workspace saying there's
> activity waiting for me in the other workspace, but that little box
> saying "acc:workspace<x>" that pops up, gets the focus sometimes, which
> is annoying, it mostly happens if the window that I was focused in was
> the left/top one as well. I think this might be a bug due to the fact
> that I use "switchto", but only the window should get focus within its
> frame, but not lose my focus in another workspace, make sense?
I'm glad that the 'set urgent' feature is useful to someone other than
just me.
I've seen this same thing and as far as I've been able to tell the
notification window gets focus when the mouse is over it when it shows
up, which when using mouse warp is quite often. I looked into writing an
alt_hook for the mouse warping but it can't be done from lua currently,
and I don't want to write a c module for that. So I've taken to just
moving my mouse away from that corner when I know I'm in a conversation.
> Another feature that would be nice, is if I could also force that "ion
> workspace notification" feature to happen with defwinprop. I'd like to
> use it for example when my evolution alarm dialog opens up, so that I
> know that I need to go check that workspace. When gaim sets the
> "urgent" hint for that window, the activity notifier of ion doesn't go
> away until I go to that specific workspace and that's what I'd like to
> control too. I'm not sure if that's the default behavior for new
> windows, etc.
While I don't quite know how this works, I do know that error/warning
dialogs from firefox put up the activity notification. (Or at least I'm
pretty sure I remember that, I'm currently not seeing any notification
at all and I'm not sure if I broke something or if it's busted in svn.)
I don't however know if that was notification for something specific or
for new windows in general. I'm sure Tuomo does and will chime in soon.
> Let me know what you think...
>
> -Chris
-Etan
