On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote:
(please, don't top post: this makes mailing lists unreadable)
Post by Nicholas PapadonisI 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
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t