On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: (please, don't top post: this makes mailing lists unreadable) > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the answer seems to be... complex: it depends on whether you use Wayland or not. It seems to "kind of work", but in different ways. Look also for "sloppy focus": in general you don't want your focused window to lose focus when you move the pointer to the "background window". But perhaps you do want that. That all said, back then (> 10 years, so take this with two fists of salt), when I tried that with Gnome, I never found a satisfying setup. It seems the devels themselves don't try that out very much. And oh, yet another thing: of course, these days, where half of the life happens in lots of little badly written "applications" whithin the browser, all of them with their half-implemented window manager... be prepared to have some... media discontinuities (I hate browsers for that). Cheers -- t
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