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Re: address@hidden: Re: focus-follows-mouse should be nil by default on
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: Re: focus-follows-mouse should be nil by default on MS Windows] |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:00:03 +0200 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
> There are window managers that does not allow focus changes outside the
> window
> that has the mouse in it, if focus follows mouse. Metacity and sawfish
> calls this mode focus-follows-mouse-strict. In that case, the code
> above moves the mouse to the new window so it gets the focus. It is not
> documented what window managers should do in this situation, so
> different implementations exist.
>
I think Windows never had a thing like "focus-follows-mouse-strict" or
"focus-under-mouse". Windows' official non-click philosophy is to
change focus (and possibly autoraise) iff the mouse _enters_ a new
window. That is, you have to explicitly click on the desktop in order
to "give it focus". Raising a window automatically gives it focus.
I'm on Windows ME where focus changes by default would happen
instantaneously, that's why I'm using a somewhat infamous thing called
TXMouse which is, however, "sloppy" too. Hence, in my opinion, changing
the value of `focus-follows-mouse' won't have any impact on existing
Windows implementations.