Re: mouse moving
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> George Bonser <george@shorelink.com> wrote:
> >It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to
> >focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy
> >focus" where focus does not leave a window unless the cursor rests on a
> >new window for some period of time.
>
> I thought sloppy focus usually meant focus-follows-mouse except that
> moving your mouse into the root window (i.e. a blank area of the screen)
> didn't take the focus away from other windows ...
I thought that is what I said ... kinda. If you do not rest your cursor on
a different window (leave it on the root window) you do not loose focus
from your previous window. If you enter a new window, it will gain focus
... after a configurable time delay depending on window manager.
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