I recently upgraded to the Debian Testing (reinstall on a new hard drive), and it seems that my long-time favorite window manager, Sawfish, is broken. So I've set out on a quest to find another window manager that supports focus follows mouse.
A lot of WMs claim they support it (or its cousin, sloppy focus), but it's far too easy to have a window under the mouse without focus. For instance, after a drag and drop, or if you open a menu in one window and close it while the focus is on another. I tried using Xfwm4, and it seems to get confused if you pass more than a couple of windows! I've just started using Fvwm2. I suspect an ancient window manager is less likely to get "updated" in such a way that it breaks, so it might be the place to stay. But although it has a working "sloppy focus" model, if I enable: Style * MouseFocus I still seem to get sloppy focus. Does anyone know why, or what I can do to fix it? I can work with sloppy focus, but I would much prefer it if when my pointer is over the desktop, no window has the focus. I don't really pay attention to window decorations: I just assume that wherever the mouse pointer is, that's where the focus is. Also: Everytime I get an email, Fvwm switches to the desktop my email client is on and raises the window. Does someone know how I can disable this behavior? Thanks! -- Tristan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1287219828.516...@cassowary
