[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#261414: lyx-qt: please acquire window focus for new windows

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

Package: lyx-qt
Version: 1.3.4-2
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

it would be nice, if lyx-qt would acquire the window focus for
new windows like Find (Ctrl-f), but also windows like Layout->
Document.

This helps people (like me :)) with keyboardFocusPolicy: pointer
to type in the window they have just actually requested even
if the mouse pointer is somewhere else.

Mozilla does that for example with it's Find window (Ctrl-f).

lyx-xforms seems to achieve this by placing new windows somewhere
'under' the mouse pointer (somewhere 'around' the current mouse
pointer position) so that they get focused automatically.

Unfortunately, lyx-qt seems to place windows just 'somewhere' -
completely independent of the current mouse pointer position.
Thus, it would help to just request the window focus for fresh
openend windows.


This is most likely something to forward upstream.


Thanks for your work & regards,
   Mario
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