Re: Debian default desktop environment
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 07 avril 2014 à 23:55 +0100, Wookey a écrit :
> > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]:
> > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click
> >
> > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' that originally
> > switched me to XFCE, and to a significant degree keeps me there. So far
> > as I know gnome3, and unity don't support this (by design).
>
> GNOME 3 is based on Mutter which has, AFAICT, all features Metacity
> (GNOME 2) used to provide. The focus settings are not shown in the
> control center, but you can use gnome-tweak-tool or the gsettings CLI to
> change them.
>
> The main problem in GNOME 3.4 with focus-follows-mouse is that it makes
> the application menu (in the top bar) mostly unusable if you have to
> move the pointer over another application to reach the menu. But the
> application menu is not used much in 3.4, and the problem should be
> fixed in more recent versions (the application menu doesn’t switch
> immediately with the focus).
If only focus-follows-mouse in GNOME didn't have so much latency...
Mike
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