mouse wheel grabs focus

[Ed Greshko]

Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> whenever I am using the mouse wheel in an non active window this window
> automatically gets the focus. Can this be disabled?
> 
> Scenario:
> I am typing in kwrite while having firefox opened. Now I want to scroll
> within firefox not loosing the focus in kwrite. 

The simple answer is "AFAIK, no".

When you want to scroll within firefox you need to move your cursor over 
firefox for firefox to react to the wheel.  If firefox does not become the 
window with focus then the wheel and buttons of the mouse remain attached to 
the active (kwrite) window.


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