How to get window focus to travwel with mouse under compiz

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Jan 5 22:55:51 UTC 2011


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


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