mouse wheel grabs focus

[Mark Fraser]

In article <45CC3D6C.1070407 at greshko.com>,
   Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> 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.

Something RISC OS can do that Linux can't? ;) I can type away in a text
editor (StrongEd) and scroll through my emails with the mouse wheel and
StrongEd keeps input focus.