GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 83304
Button1-click on window frame should not always raise the window
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
While I really hate to suggest a new option, this has been bugging me ever since I moved from sawfish to metacity on my gnome2 test machine (originally because sawfish2 is way too unstable, but I wouldn't want to move back even if it wasn't, exactly because metacity is simpler to use thanks to fewer options).. I need a way to be able to click inside windows without them being raised automatically. Even if #80984 and #80298 were resolved, I'd still find myself clicking widgets in windows that I do not want to be raised to the front. So I need a way to make clicks on the window border only (not the entire frame) raise the window. Maybe it's just me, but I'd think this is a natural way of using mouse focus mode. If I can focus a window that's not the topmost and type into it, I should be able to also click in it (for example to focus the right widget to type into). Given that, if it was just me, I'd tie this feature to the focus mode.
Marking enhancement. That said, if one can type in a non-raised window if it somehow gets focus, being able to click on it /does/ make sense to me.
This looks like a dup of 86108. My .0199 Euro and a few external beta testers indicates that this really should be a preference.
Yah. The 0.199 euro should be added in 86108, FWIW. [oa@: I'm only marking this a dup because the other bug has a lot of discussion and a PATCH. Thanks for filing it.] *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86108 ***