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Re: Detached menus and not-click-to-focus

 

* Matt Wheeler (m@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On 27 March 2011 00:48, Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That's a pretty nasty problem, and I'm not sure what can be done to fix it.
> > Any thoughts? Force a delay on when windows get refocused?
> > I've always used focus-follows-mouse, and trying the menubar-on-top thing
> > recently, this made it almost unusable.
> 
> Unfortunately focus follows mouse has (IMO) been broken in Gnome since
> Metacity replaced Sawfish as the default window manager; Metacity (and
> apparently Compiz) doesn't support a delay before focus switches.
> Perhaps that feature could be re-implemented ;)

I've used sloppy focus on metacity for years; always seemed to work
well for me.

Dave
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