[Sawfish] Focusing when a window is uncovered

[Geoff Kuenning <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It used to be the case that when you were using point-to-focus and 
a window was uncovered (for example, if it was beneath another 
window that was unmapped), the uncovered window would receive 
focus.  That behavior has changed in recent Sawfish versions (I'm 
running 1.10.9); to get focus you have to move the mouse out of 
the underlying window and back in again.

I fully understand that there is a security issue here; if a 
malicious program unmaps a window at exactly the wrong time, you 
could wind up unintentionally typing into the wrong place. 
However, in my environment I don't have to worry about that risk, 
and the new behavior is quite troublesome to me.  In one case my 
screensaver activated above a full-screen window; when I 
deactivated the screensaver I was left in a situation where I 
couldn't get focus into the window so that I could make it go 
away.  I almost rebooted my computer before I found a workaround.

I did a bit of searching in the docs and the config optoins but 
couldn't find a way to return to the old behavior.  I'd love to 
turn it off entirely, but if I can't do that I'd like to at least 
have a short timeout (perhaps 2 seconds) after which the new focus 
would happen.

Is there an option to control this behavior?
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   Geoff Kuenning   geoff@xxxxxxxxxx 
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