Re: mouse wheel grabs focus

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At 3:52 PM +0100 2/9/07, Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
>Am Freitag, den 09.02.2007, 09:08 -0500 schrieb Tony Nelson:
>> At 5:22 PM +0800 2/9/07, Ed Greshko 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.
>>
>> Using Gnome, GEdit, and Firefox, I can type in GEdit and scroll Firefox
>> with the wheel without losing focus in GEdit.  In case it matters, I
>> disbled the middle mouse button as I used to get middle clicks when
>> scrolling.
>
>I can confirm that - just testet Gnome - it works here as well.
>
>Then let me precise my question:
>Does anybody know how this behavior can be configured within KDE?

No, but come to think of it, I have Kwrite and it also lets me scroll
Firefox in the background without losing focus while typing.  Of course,
I'm running Gnome/Metacity and not KDE.
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