On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:31, Ryan Daly wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 20:15, Ben Steeves wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:09, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I can't find out how to make a mouse click (other than on the title bar) > > > raise the window. It "used to" happen in Shrike, but I can't remember > > > if I did something in particular for that behaviour. My "window > > > preferences" are simply 'select on mouse-over'. Is it still possible? > > > > > > I've searched menus, mailing lists, google etc, but found nothing. > > > > > > gnome 2.4.0, metacity 2.6.3-1. > > > > Reporter, add thyself: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106847 > > This was an issue some time ago. See, default Unix window manager > behavior usually dictates that a click in the window itself does *not* > raise the window. However, this was the default behavior in Gnome for > quite some time, until numerous people started complaining and filed a > bug report to get the action changed to the way it should be. > > To get the action of clicking in a window to raise it, one should use > click-to-focus, not focus-follows-mouse. Focus-follows-mouse mode now > only raises the window when clicking the border. Argh, what a terrible change from a usability point of view. I know this is common in old X window managers (is there really such thing as a "default" UNIX window manager? :-), but just 'cos that's the way it was always done doesn't make it right. At the very least it should be an option. Click-to-focus isn't the same behaviour because the click that focuses also raises. I *hate* that. I want to have the rear window have focus without coming to the front, and without fancy combinations of clicking and alt-tabbing around. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
