Find and acive window under Linux
lazarus / 9-Editor

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krzynio · 2015-01-14 21:41

Hi!
I use Lazarus trunk under Linux Debian with XFCE.
When I press Ctrl+F on any word the Find window opens with this word
in edit control. Then by simply clicking Find button or pressing Enter
key I can find the word. But after first instance is found the source
window looses focus. The focus is moved to main Lazarus window and to
find next occurrence I have to click somewhere in source editor first
to activate source editor then I can press Ctlr+L to find another
instance.
Under Windows it works fine. Focus is kept  in source editor.
Is it a configuration problem or Linux bug?
Regards,
Krzysztof

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Martin_fr · 2015-01-14 21:51

sounds like a bug / there is no config for what you described

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munair · 2015-04-08 18:37

This is a shortcoming in the XFCE window manager. What XFCE version do
you have?

I have XFCE 4.8 (distributed by Debian) on Debian 7.8. I have similar
problems with windows losing their focus. For instance, if I have a
main window and open a modal dialog which then pops up a message box,
the focus goes back to the main form after I close the message box
rather then to the modal dialog. This is definitely XFCE behaviour.

Usually after pressing Ctrl+F, I do continuous search with F3, a
leftover from the DOS era but still being used today.

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zeljko · 2015-04-09 07:19

XFCE window manager have pretty strange behaviour with modal windows.
That's main reason why I don't use it at all. Try to use some other
window manager with xfce. eg. openbox and it will be ok.