raise window on-click

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Nov 25 06:33:54 UTC 2003


Rob Park wrote:
> 
> Ugh, this drives me nuts. I use focus-follows-mouse because I like being 
> able to type into whatever window I'm pointing at, WITHOUT having to 
> click it.
...
> BUT, sometimes I DO want to 
> raise the window, and it's *so* much easier to be able to click anywhere 
> than to be restricted to the title bar.

Alt + Mouse 1

Problem solved.

> Actually, now that I'm ranting about it anyway, GNOME really needs a 
> "focus strictly under mouse" mode, not "focus follows mouse, poorly" as 
> is currently implemented. There's nothing I hate more than writing an 
> email, and having some error dialog box pop up, but disappear too 
> quickly to read because I was typing, it stole my focus, and I pressed 
> the space bar, which selected the default action.  That dialog box,
> whatever it was, just did something that I might not have wanted it to 
> do, and it might be irreversible, and I might never know what it was. 

I agree that this is a serious problem.  I don't know if it's the window 
manager's fault though.  It might be fixed by never assigning key 
shortcuts to buttons in "alert" style dialog boxes (that is, ones that 
open without the user specifically requesting them to open, from a menu 
or such) or at the very least, delaying the binding of a key to the 
default button for several seconds.





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