Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:41:35PM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 6:44 AM wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > > > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? > > > > I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms > > > > gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" > > > > (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the > > answer seems to be... complex [...] > I don't know why you would force "metacity" in there, it's *not* the > window manager, so no wonder you get weird results. [...] As I said, my last interaction with Gnome is long time ago. These days I don't use a desktop environment at all. Cheers & thanks for the clarifications. -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 6:44 AM wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? > > I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms > > gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" > > (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the > answer seems to be... complex: it depends on whether > you use Wayland or not. It seems to "kind of work", > but in different ways. > > Look also for "sloppy focus": in general you don't want > your focused window to lose focus when you move the > pointer to the "background window". But perhaps you do > want that. I don't know why you would force "metacity" in there, it's *not* the window manager, so no wonder you get weird results. Just enable "Focus on Hover" in the Gnome Tweaks settings: "Window is focused when hovered with the pointer. Windows remain focused when the desktop is hovered." It has worked flawlessly for ages, as long as I've used Gnome 3 (the default in debian for a long time), and there's no difference in behaviour between wayland and xorg.
Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: (please, don't top post: this makes mailing lists unreadable) > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the answer seems to be... complex: it depends on whether you use Wayland or not. It seems to "kind of work", but in different ways. Look also for "sloppy focus": in general you don't want your focused window to lose focus when you move the pointer to the "background window". But perhaps you do want that. That all said, back then (> 10 years, so take this with two fists of salt), when I tried that with Gnome, I never found a satisfying setup. It seems the devels themselves don't try that out very much. And oh, yet another thing: of course, these days, where half of the life happens in lots of little badly written "applications" whithin the browser, all of them with their half-implemented window manager... be prepared to have some... media discontinuities (I hate browsers for that). Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 10:00:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2023 23:53:35 -0400 > Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > I installed Debian 11. Does anyone know how to get this > > functionality? I looked through settings however didn't see an > > option. > > That would depend on which desktop you installed. In XFCE, Settings -> > Window Manager -> Focus Model -> Focus follows mouse, and Raise on > focus. FWIW, I am one of those who have "focus follows mouse" and NOT "raise on focus": I like typing into a terminal, for example, even when some part of it is obscured. But then, I don't have XFCE, either :-) > Does anybody read signatures any more? I think I've read this somewhere... Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?
I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 12:02 AM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2023 23:53:35 -0400 > Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > I installed Debian 11. Does anyone know how to get this > > functionality? I looked through settings however didn't see an > > option. > > That would depend on which desktop you installed. In XFCE, Settings -> > Window Manager -> Focus Model -> Focus follows mouse, and Raise on > focus. > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > >
Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?
On Wed, 31 May 2023 23:53:35 -0400 Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > I installed Debian 11. Does anyone know how to get this > functionality? I looked through settings however didn't see an > option. That would depend on which desktop you installed. In XFCE, Settings -> Window Manager -> Focus Model -> Focus follows mouse, and Raise on focus. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
