Re: Focus Policy

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:26:52 +0100, Hrvoje Blazevic
<hrvoje despammed com> wrote:
> I have asked this several times before, and the answer offered was to
> switch to Sawfish WM. Unfortunately this no longer appears easy to do,
> as Sawfish has all but disappeared from various distributions, and
> Metacity is still impossible to set properly. I wonder if developers
> involved with Metacity realize that for many users focus policy makes or
> breaks the WM. I have been using Linux (and FreeBSD) since late 1993,
> and in the early days I adopted the TWM and FVWM focusing policy, which
> is IMHO the most effective policy if set up properly. When, after more
> than 10 years of doing things one way, Gnome WM forces me to adopt M$
> focus policy, I find this distasteful.
> 
> So one more time, is there a way to set focus policy to focus follows
> pointer (properly), or is my only solution to switch to KDE?

wm-spec-list is not about Gnome, it's about compatibility of window
managers across the various desktops (which you can effectively think
about as making it possible to use KWin under Gnome or Metacity under
KDE, which some people have reported doing).  Thus, this question
doesn't belong on wm-spec-list.  gnome-list would be an appropriate
location, as would filing a bug in Gnome bugzilla against Metacity
stating what you think is missing.  You can also feel free to email me
individually, since this happens to be something I have worked on.

(However, since I'm already answering...  Metacity 2.8.6 contains a
couple *dozen* bugfixes regarding focus over older 2.6.x versions, the
majority of which fix sloppy & mouse focus problems.  It may not
handle everything you want, but I'd be interested to hear anything
else that you consider to be missing--off this list, of course).

Cheers,
Elijah