[compiz] Window Focus Changes When Dragging

Jan Niklas Hasse
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:45:57 -0000

As i can remember this feature was in metacity before 2.16. But i don't
know why they changed it.

Am Montag, den 15.01.2007, 00:39 +0000 schrieb Who:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a scenario:
> I have two windows (A and B) and I want to drag a file from one to the
other.
>
> I focus window A, browse to the place that I want to drop the file and
> then try and pick up the file from window B, window B gets focused
> when I start to drag the icon
>
> Is there any way to make Compiz only focus a window when I click it
> but not when I click and drag an item on it? (Sometimes, for example,
> Window B will cover up the thing I was trying to drop on window A)
>
> A quick survey:
> Windows: Doesn't change focus on drag
> OSX: Doesn't change focus on drag
> Linux w. Metacity: Does cause focus to change on dragging.
>
> So I don't know whether the precedent is set by the other two OSs or
> by metacity. If it is easy, and it isn't already possible then could
> it be there as an option? :)
>
> Thanks for the continued work on Compiz!
>
> Jonathan
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