From: Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>
Subject: Re: cwm(1), when closing a window, pass focus to prev in stack
To: Walter Alejandro Iglesias <wai@roquesor.com>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:16:03 -0000

On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 09:49:42AM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> This is a ping of a proposal I made last year.
> 
> Current behaviour: when you close a window, whatever other window the
> pointer lands on gets the focus.

This is actually quite useful for anybody who is controlling the window system
without a pointing device, (I.E. just using keyboard hotkeys).

> Behavior proposed: when you close a window, the pointer warps (passing
> the focus) to the previous window in the stack.  Conveniently, raise it
> first, otherwise if it's behind another window the latter will get the
> focus instead.

This seems to be heavily biased towards your preferred way of working.

There are plenty of situations where automatically raising a completely
unrelated window is going to break the user's workflow and require additional
steps shuffling other windows to accomplish the task in hand.

Why not just keep this as a local patch, or at least make it a configurable
option if it absolutely must go in?