F15: Follow-mouse focus and hacks for GNOME shell?

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 07:00:16 UTC 2011


On 1 June 2011 07:50, Hiisi <hiisi at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 1 June 2011 07:16, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/01/2011 01:40 AM, sguazt wrote:
>>> Didn't find a way to set this type of focus under GNOME shell.
>>>
>>> Searching in the Web I've found these 2 hacks:
>>>
>>> gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode -t string sloppy
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode -t string mouse
>>>
>
> I was looking for the same functionality. Just was too lame to google
> for them. Thanks!
>
>>> Are they safe?
>>
>> Safe?  idk.  works fine
>>
>
>
> Safe? I don't care ;- )
>

My mouse burst into flames after doing this! Don't try it!

(No not really, actually follow focus carried over from F13 without me
having to do anything. So one Gnome3 thing works.)

-- 
imalone


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