Re: address@hidden: Re: focus-follows-mouse should be nil by default on MS Windows]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:00:03 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> 
> 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".

That's the default, yes.  But one can tweak the Registry to force
Windows behave more like X, in that just entering a window with the
mouse gives it focus.  (I do this on any Windows machine I need to
work on, because I hate the need to click--it requires that I move the
mouse much more than I need to, and also precludes me from typing into
a window while having another window fully exposed.)

> Raising a window automatically gives it focus.

Yes, I think this always happens on Windows.  Which is why
focus-follows-mouse doesn't have any effect.

> 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.

My Registry tweaks include setting the time delay between entering a
window and it getting the focus.