Re: [Metacity] No focus for the Gnome Panel

[Laurence Yaffe <lgy newton phys washington edu>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:00:07PM -0500, gnome-list-request gnome org wrote:
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> From: krause sdbk de (Sebastian D.B. Krause)
> Subject: [Metacity] No focus for the Gnome Panel
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:14:34 +0100
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> Hi!
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> I just started to use Gnome 2.4 with Metacity. The problem I have is
> that even the Gnome Panel gets the focus of the active Window when I
> click on it. This is a little annoying, but I couldn't find a option
> yet to disable the focus for the panel. Any hints?
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> Sebastian
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So far as I know, this is an unavoidable mis-feature of metacity.
You can try chaning its focus behavior from click-to-focus to pointer-focus
(one way is via gconf-editor under apps->metacity->general).
But it still insists on both raising and focusing on any window
which you click on.  The only tolerable fix I've found is to
switch from metacity back to sawfish.  Which is sad...

Larry