Please describe the problem:
I have been very patiently waiting for this to be fixed (ever since Metacity got
promoted to default WM for gnome), but after several years still nothing? This
has forced me to use KDE instead of Gnome.

The problem is very simple: Metacity (in Windows preferences) allowes focus
policy to be set to sloppy focus (focus follows mouse), and this is the way I
like it, and have been using ever since I switched to Linux in 1994. However,
for sloppy focus to be useful, it should be possible to disable raising the
window when the client area is clicked. Unfortunately this is missing from
Window preferences dialog. You have (for instance) such irrelevant choices as
"Raise selected window after an interval", but the choice of DO NOT raise the
window is simply missing. Window (in sloppy focus mode) should be raised only on
user's request (left click on the border). This is *not* my invention, as this
is the way that TWM, FVWM, Sawfish, and even KDE can be set to work.

This is *very* frustrating, and a complete show stopper for me.

Steps to reproduce:
1. In Window Preferences select: Select windows when the mouse moves over them
2. 
3. 


Actual results:
You get the brain dead sloppy focus. As soon as you click anywhere on the client
area, the window is raised, and invaryably obscures area from another window
that I'm looking at :-)

Expected results:


Does this happen every time?
YES!

Other information:
Please, add one more check box in Window Preferences, with the text: Raise the
window only when border or TitleBar is clicked. (Or something like that).