Gnome 3 and my favorite window focus and raise behavior
Submitted by lefred on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 21:55
Yesterday night I installed Fedora 15 Alpha to see and test the gnome-shell (gnome 3) improvements.
I stopped to test for one reason: I was not able to setup my favorite behavior for window's focus.
What I like (this is mandatory, that's also the one major reason why I don't use Mac OSX daily) is that the focus follows the mouse but doesn't raises the window !
After having "googled" a bit, I tried to install gnome-tweak-tool... but it didn't help for this task... :(
The solution is to use gconf-editor and changing the default value (click) of /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode to sloppy.
Now I'm very happy and I can continue my tests of Gnome 3.
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12 reponses to "Gnome 3 and my favorite window focus and raise behavior"
1. I tried to test GNOME 3
I tried to test GNOME 3 pretty much on , and I got used to it without bigger problems. - Jeffrey Nimer
2. This is why I use KDE
The focus and raise settings are straight forward. It is not a mere tweak but a setting. Like You, I don't use Mac OSX because of its lack of functionality. The ability to click in a windows without raising it and the ability to give focus to a window just by putting the mouse over it are a combination of features that is sine qua none.
3. - install gconf-editor:
- install gconf-editor:
sudo apt-get install gconf-editor
- open gconf-editor
- under apps->metacity->general
there is an auto_raise option; turn this off
4. Thank you!
Thank you anonymous. I keep forgetting how to set this up (and where to change what). Thanks.
5. You just need to uncheck
You just need to uncheck
/apps/metacity/general/auto_raise
then, "mouse" or "sloppy" will work as desired.
6. I am a bit puzzled here. Does
I am a bit puzzled here.
Does Gnome 3 use Metacity as window manager?
The reason I am asking is of course because Metacity can do really Sloppy Focus with "Don't raise windows on click" AND a really cool feature is that it can remember the order of stacked windows =)
Like you I need Sloppy Focus before I switch to Gnome 3.
So does Gnome 3 really use Metacity?
7. You can also set it to 'mouse'
I think it makes more sense than sloppy.
8. Thanks
Hey, thanks very much to report this trick. I was experiencing the same problem.
Cheers!
9. thank you
thanks a lot for providing this information with me.thanks a lot.
10. Alt+Tab
Try alttabbing with sloppy focus enabled. It will focus the selected window and then immediately focus the window that's under the mouse pointer. I find it hard to work without sloppy focus, but a nonfunctional alttab is no less problematic, so I've switched to XFCE for the moment...
11. Unforunately the same here on
Unforunately the same here on my archlinux box, and haven't yet discovered any parameters to change this behaviour.
12. There is a fix
There is a fix at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597190
For fedora users, you can get a scratch RPM at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701338