client focus awesome wm

poopship21 · 2009-10-26 21:28:42

i have the bad habit of using keyboard to navigate among awesome clients and forgetting that the mouse in an inconvenient position (ie conferring focus to the client that it is positioned over rather than the one which i have chosen with mod4+j/k). i have perused the rc.lua file briefly but im not that familliar with the object model of awesome (at least the way its defined there) so im reluctant to hack away if someone else has a cut and paste solution. awesome is awesome, but its an acquired taste.
TIA

anrxc · 2009-10-26 21:55:21

Focus follows the mouse, or in this case a slight variant called sloppy focus. It is nothing specific to awesome practically every window manager has it, and awesome is distributed with a default rc.lua where it is enabled.

Open your rc.lua and search for "sloppy focus", you can't miss it, then comment it.

poopship21 · 2009-10-27 18:26:37

that worked, thanks anrxc. however it would be convenient to be able to toggle soft focus as the need arises. i tried to edit the rc.lua file to incorporate this functionality but it seems the soft focus is still disabled (like i want it to be 99% of the time) when i try to enable it with "modkey+Shift s"

global variable to tell awesome whether the follow the mouse:

makesloppy = 1

added global keybinding for toggling makesloppy

    -- Toggle Sloppy focus
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "s",
        function ()
            if makesloppy then
                makesloppy = 0
            else
               makesloppy = 1
            end
        end)
)

in the hooks section which you pointed out earlier, added a conditional to the focus statement

awful.hooks.mouse_enter.register(function (c)
    -- Sloppy focus, but disabled for magnifier layout
    if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
        and awful.client.focus.filter(c)
            and makesloppy then
                client.focus = c
    end
end)

my stupid mistake is going to pop right out at you!

Last edited by poopship21 (2009-10-27 18:28:25)

anrxc · 2009-10-27 20:24:42

Don't use 0 and 1, use true and false.

Edit: since I'm already answering, you can also simplify your function, instead of the if statement use: makesloppy = not makesloppy

Last edited by anrxc (2009-10-27 20:30:01)

GGLucas · 2009-10-27 23:38:17

Another way to do this is to add cursor warping to your configuration, it's a bit more complex but what you basically need to do is move the cursor to the new window whenever you change focus using the keyboard (with some sanity checks so you don't get your pointer jumping all over the place when you're actually using the mouse).

I wonder why they didn't include an example of that in the default config.

poopship21 · 2009-11-26 16:56:32

GGLucas wrote:

Another way to do this is to add cursor warping to your configuration, it's a bit more complex but what you basically need to do is move the cursor to the new window whenever you change focus using the keyboard (with some sanity checks so you don't get your pointer jumping all over the place when you're actually using the mouse).
I wonder why they didn't include an example of that in the default config.

thats intruiging. i didnt get any results searching the wiki for cursor warping so i guess im going to start a bit lower:

[au@arroyo1 ~]$ grep -Hlr "cursor" /usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/awful.completion.html
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/root.html
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/awful.mouse.html
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/wibox.html
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/awful.mouse.finder.html
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/awful.prompt.html
/usr/share/doc/awesome/luadoc/modules/awful.tooltip.html

ill post results once i have it implemented. note that implementation is attenuated by consumption of turkey

anrxc · 2009-11-26 20:35:22

Awesome 3.4.x now emits an arrange signal, which makes it easier. You'll find the rc.lua part of code here
http://www.mail-archive.com/awesome@naq … 02037.html

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#1 2009-10-26 21:28:42

client focus awesome wm

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Re: client focus awesome wm

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