GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 302820
Adding the option in gconf not to raise clicked windows
Last modified: 2005-05-03 14:40:23 UTC
Distribution/Version: Gentoo Click on a window in the default "focus follows mouse" setting. The window gets raised, and if you for example would like to drag something onto another window, it is impossible. Ubuntu has patched this, and thus adds an option in gconf where you can choose not to raise a window when clicked. Instead, you have to ALT-click the window to raise it. I personally patch my metacity with the following patch to add this option, but i really think this is an enhancement to Gnome, and thus, it should be in the main distribution. It doesn't even clutter the configuration, as there is (so far) no interface except gconf that can change the setting. It is just perfect for those of us who knows we can't live without it. The Ubuntu patch for metacity 2.10.0: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pg/ubuntu/metacity/metacity-suspend-0.1.patch
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86108 ***