Re: ongoing problem with enter-exit focus

[<sand blarg net>]

Andrew A. Adams writes:
> 
> There's something on focus I've been meaning to raise as well. I have my 
> focus set to "enter only" since I want to be able to move the pointer onto 
> the root background and retain focus on the window. However, when I lower a 
> window, focus does not shift to the window I "enter" which is beneath the 
> current pointer position after the lowering. To me this should be at least an 
> optional setting available (that lowering a window and the mouse pointer thus 
> "entering" another window without passing that window's border should shift 
> focus) and possibly it should be the default action, with an option to switch 
> it off.

That sounds like the problem discussed in the thread "Broken
enter-exit focus behavior in 1.5.3" in November and December 2009.
Take a look at the archives:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2009-November/thread.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2009-December/thread.html

Derek

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Derek Upham
sand blarg net