raise window on-click
Ben Steeves
bcs at metacon.ca
Tue Nov 25 01:55:59 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:31, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 20:15, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:09, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > I can't find out how to make a mouse click (other than on the title bar)
> > > raise the window. It "used to" happen in Shrike, but I can't remember
> > > if I did something in particular for that behaviour. My "window
> > > preferences" are simply 'select on mouse-over'. Is it still possible?
> > >
> > > I've searched menus, mailing lists, google etc, but found nothing.
> > >
> > > gnome 2.4.0, metacity 2.6.3-1.
> >
> > Reporter, add thyself:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106847
>
> This was an issue some time ago. See, default Unix window manager
> behavior usually dictates that a click in the window itself does *not*
> raise the window. However, this was the default behavior in Gnome for
> quite some time, until numerous people started complaining and filed a
> bug report to get the action changed to the way it should be.
>
> To get the action of clicking in a window to raise it, one should use
> click-to-focus, not focus-follows-mouse. Focus-follows-mouse mode now
> only raises the window when clicking the border.
Argh, what a terrible change from a usability point of view. I know
this is common in old X window managers (is there really such thing as a
"default" UNIX window manager? :-), but just 'cos that's the way it was
always done doesn't make it right.
At the very least it should be an option. Click-to-focus isn't the same
behaviour because the click that focuses also raises. I *hate* that. I
want to have the rear window have focus without coming to the front, and
without fancy combinations of clicking and alt-tabbing around.
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