On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:03, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Alt + Mouse 1
Problem solved.
Thank you very much!! I didn't know about this. Thats slightly better.
Hoped so. Pretty much every WM I know of supports Alt+Mouse1 to raise and move windows in its default configuration. Alt+Mouse2 can be used to resize windows, as well.
There's nothing I hate more than writing an email, and having some error dialog box pop up, but disappear too quickly to read because I was typing, it stole my focus, and I pressed the space bar, which selected the default action. That dialog box,
whatever it was, just did something that I might not have wanted it to do, and it might be irreversible, and I might never know what it was.
I agree that this is a serious problem. I don't know if it's the window manager's fault though. It might be fixed by never assigning key shortcuts to buttons in "alert" style dialog boxes (that is, ones that open without the user specifically requesting them to open, from a menu or such) or at the very least, delaying the binding of a key to the default button for several seconds.
What do you think of the strict focus idea?
I think it's a bad idea to a bigger problem.
I have nothing against the behavior. You should use it if you like it. However, you'll probably find it easier to install WindowMaker and use it as your GNOME WM than to convince Havoc to implement another focus method in Metacity.
As a solution, it ignores the entire issue that under a default configuration, users *are* going to miss alert-style dialogs if they're typing when the dialog pops up.
Another idea that occurs to me is that if a dialog or alert has focus and the user types on the keyboard, the application should beep at him to get his attention.
