Re: Window focus behavior

Thank you Robert and Calum for your input!

Robert, your suggestion does modify the raise/focus behavior in
Metacity, but it does not achieve quite what I want. The raised window
still covers up any part of all windows that were in front of it.

Calum, it's too bad that the metacity maintainers closed your item as
not a bug - however, I suppose if their intention is to not allow the
feature then that is their choice. I think my only solution is to try
a different window manager. For example, I know that IceWM can do what
I want, and I believe it is GNOME/Ubuntu friendly.

Thanks!
Drake


On Nov 20, 2007 9:38 AM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 10:47 -0700, Drake Emko wrote:

I don't like it when you click on a window, and it raises to obscure
everything that was overlapping it. This is normal behavior for most
people (that is how it works in Windows), but I would like to know if,
in GNOME/Metacity, I can configure the behavior so that windows don't
raise when you click on them for focus. I would like to raise the
window if I click on the titlebar, but if I click somewhere else in
the window, I would like any overlapping windows to continue being
visible even while I have focus in the partially obscured window.

We have a patch for something similar in the Solaris version of GNOME--
a gconf key which, if set, causes windows only to raise if you click the
frame rather than the contents.

Ours only applies in focus-follows-mouse mode though-- i.e. it fixes bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86108. However the metacity
maintainers closed this as NOTABUG, so I guess you won't be seeing it
upstream anytime soon...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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