On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 19:33 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote: > In article <45CC3D6C.1070407@xxxxxxxxxxx>, > Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > > > whenever I am using the mouse wheel in an non active window this window > > > automatically gets the focus. Can this be disabled? > > > > > > Scenario: > > > I am typing in kwrite while having firefox opened. Now I want to scroll > > > within firefox not loosing the focus in kwrite. > > > The simple answer is "AFAIK, no". > > > When you want to scroll within firefox you need to move your cursor over > > firefox for firefox to react to the wheel. If firefox does not become > > the window with focus then the wheel and buttons of the mouse remain > > attached to the active (kwrite) window. > > Something RISC OS can do that Linux can't? ;) I can type away in a text > editor (StrongEd) and scroll through my emails with the mouse wheel and > StrongEd keeps input focus. > > Check your personal setup files on the RISC machine to see how the mouse and pointer operations are handled. They may be different. Regards, Les H
