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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Unwanted Focus switches
Date: 21 Jun 2014 04:41:38 GMT
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On 2014-06-21, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 14-06-20 18:16, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> The point I was making is that LaunchBar does not require one to launch
>> or otherwise activate LaunchBar in such a way that it comes to the front
>> just to make *use* of it. To launch an application, I typically type
>> Control-Space followed by one to three letters of the name of said
>> application. 
>
> This means that somewhere in the GUI system, Launchbar has registered a
>  keystroke that gets intercepted by the window manager instead of being
> delivered to the app currently in focus. (same mechanism that intecpts
> command-tab for instance)
>
> Unless Launchbar is integrated into the Window manager, the later will
> then switch focus to Launchbar which will get all subsequent events
> (keystrokes, mouse movement/clicks inside its window etc).
>
> At one point, Launchbar has to tell the window manager it is done with
> intercepting keystrokes and loses focus.

Nope. That is not how it works.

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