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Facey

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Registered: Yesterday

Posts: 2

Xfce panel focus issues

I'm coming from a Windows environment and am trying to set up the UX in a very similar way to Windows.

I've moved the panel to the bottom (and I've gotten rid of the MacOS style dock), however when clicking on the panel the window that currently has focus does not lose this focus (it would in Windows). It also does not lose focus when using the menus on the panel (e.g. the application menu).

This is very jarring and has consequences when using the context menu key on the keyboard (after having clicked on the xfce-panel) the context menu is opened for the element within the focused window.

Expected behaviour: Focus is shifted from the active window to the panel
Actual behaviour: The active window does not change (i.e. focus is not shifted to the panel)

I've had a look at the options for the panel but can see nothing relating to the changing of focus.

How can the panel itself be given focus when interacted with? TIA

Last edited by Facey (Yesterday 10:37:47)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,383

Re: Xfce panel focus issues

How can the panel itself be given focus when interacted with?

What exactly are you intending to do with the panel that would require it to work like a window and receive focus?

This is how I understand it: By design, it is considered a dock (_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK) and as such, the window manager is instructed to treat it in such a way that prevents it from receiving explicit input focus when mapped or clicked.

Last edited by ToZ (Today 00:03:48)

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