Jesper Andersen
2007-Oct-26 08:35 UTC
[compiz] Focus behavior when not using "Click to focus"
Hi. I am currently not using "Click to focus" (and would rather not) when using Compiz. Mostly then the focus behavior works as I expect. There is one case where it does not: Suppose I have two windows on viewport 1 but am currently looking at viewport 2. The mouse cursor is currently located such that if I were to switch to viewport 1, it would hover over window 1 (and thus give focus to window 1). Now, if I manually select window 2 (using either switcher plugin or the scale plugin or any other where I don't move the mouse) the viewport changes to the correct (vp 1) but the focused window is NOT window 2 that I selected, but window 1 which the mouse is now hovering. Since I decided (by using the switcher, scale, ...) that I wanted to switch to window 2, focus should not be given to window 1 but to window 2 irrespective of where the mouse hovers. Alternatively, one could argue that more than two focus models ("Click to focus") are needed. I.e. "Click to focus", "Focus follows mouse sloppily", "Focus follows mouse strictly" or perhaps others. What are peoples thoughts on this? Cheers, Jesper Andersen