Does f14 support focus follows mouse on Gnome ?
On f13 we needed to install (a soon-to-be-deprecated) control-center-extras to get this working.
Can anyone advise what the status is in f14 ?
Tricks such as gconf registry edits are ok too.
thanks!
gene
On 08/11/10 14:50, Genes MailLists wrote:
Does f14 support focus follows mouse on Gnome ?
On f13 we needed to install (a soon-to-be-deprecated) control-center-extras to get this working.
Can anyone advise what the status is in f14 ?
Tricks such as gconf registry edits are ok too.
thanks!
gene
It seems to work for me, with XFCE if that makes any difference?
A DVD upgrade from F-13 to 14.
Bob
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:58:15PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 08/11/10 14:50, Genes MailLists wrote:
Does f14 support focus follows mouse on Gnome ?
[snip]
Tricks such as gconf registry edits are ok too.
I use a script and a config file to automate my setup. The config with gconf settings is at: https://github.com/jumanjiman/workstation/blob/master/role-workstation/src/g...
To discover new settings, I'll typically browse or grep through /etc/gconf/schemas.
example: egrep -r '<key>' *
hth, -paul
Paul Morgan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:58:15PM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 08/11/10 14:50, Genes MailLists wrote:
Does f14 support focus follows mouse on Gnome ?
On f13 we needed to install (a soon-to-be-deprecated) control-center-extras to get this working.
Happily the required preferences dialog (gnome-window-properties) has been moved back to control-center, so control-center-extras isn't required for that.
I use a script and a config file to automate my setup.
Indeed. I have a similar script.
However, I often end up using the GUI to set focus-follows-mouse. Once there's more than one window on the screen I have to switch between them and click-to-type MAKES ME WANT TO SWEAR.
It astounds me that there are people in the world who can tolerate click-to-type for more than a few seconds.
Ron
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 09:02 +0000, Ron Yorston wrote:
However, I often end up using the GUI to set focus-follows-mouse. Once there's more than one window on the screen I have to switch between them and click-to-type MAKES ME WANT TO SWEAR.
It astounds me that there are people in the world who can tolerate click-to-type for more than a few seconds.
And then there's those that don't want the damn mouse pointer in the way, *anywhere* near the window that they're working on.
On 11/09/2010 01:02 AM, Ron Yorston wrote:
It astounds me that there are people in the world who can tolerate click-to-type for more than a few seconds.
I, OTOH, prefer to move the mouse out of the way when I'm typing so that it doesn't distract me. Having the focus change simply because I've moved the mouse would be totally unacceptable.
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:50:30 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote:
Tricks such as gconf registry edits are ok too.
I just install gconf-editor and go down into the apps>metacity settings to find focus setting and change it. I was able to get it to work for me on f14 while I was initially using gnome (now I have my custom fvwm session setup and running again).
On 11/08/10 12:50, Genes MailLists wrote:
Does f14 support focus follows mouse on Gnome ?
On f13 we needed to install (a soon-to-be-deprecated) control-center-extras to get this working.
Can anyone advise what the status is in f14 ?
Tricks such as gconf registry edits are ok too.
thanks!
gene
I'm running Gnome and it works fine for me.
Paolo
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Genes MailLists lists@sapience.com wrote:
Does f14 support focus follows mouse on Gnome ?
On f13 we needed to install (a soon-to-be-deprecated) control-center-extras to get this working.
Can anyone advise what the status is in f14 ?
Seems that this facility is available by default - go to System->Preferences->Windows and check the box for "Select windows when the mouse moves over them"
Control-center-extras package is no longer in F14
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