How to get window focus to travwel with mouse under compiz

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 17:55 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Aaron Konstam writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 20:20 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:54 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> >> Aaron Konstam writes:
> >> >> 
> >> >> > In F14 is you want to get your window focus to follow your mouse while
> >> >> > using compiz this seems to work.
> >> >> > Run Configuration editor. Then go to /app/mwetacity/general/focus_mode
> >> >> > and change the value from click to mouse.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Seems to make no sense bit it seems to do the job.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Or, install the control-center package, and find this setting in 
> >> >> System→Windows
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> > Not if you are using compiz you won't. And you mean:
> >> > System->Peferences-> Windows 
> >> > which gives you an error if you are running the compiz .
> >> 
> >> Hmmm -- you may have to drop out of compiz into metacity, set this option, 
> >> then switch it back. But it does work in compiz. I don't recall ever having 
> >> to twiddle config changes manually. In CompizConfig I have "Gnome 
> >> Compatibility" enabled -- that may be the trick to getting compiz to honor 
> >> this config setting.
> > 
> > I have no CompizConfig on my machine. Where did you get yours?
> 
> yum install ccsm
> 
> 
On my machine compizconfig is installed by the rpm:
libcompizconfig
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