Focus-follows-mouse in Gnome-shell?

[Matthew Saltzman]

This must be a FAQ here, but googling didn't turn anything up.  How can
I enable focus-follows-mouse without auto-raise in Gnome-shell?

TIA.

[Olav Vitters]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:46:00AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> This must be a FAQ here, but googling didn't turn anything up.  How can
> I enable focus-follows-mouse without auto-raise in Gnome-shell?

You have to enable it in gnome-tweak-tool, dconf-editor or the gsettings
command line tool.

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 05/02/2011 03:34 PM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:46:00AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > This must be a FAQ here, but googling didn't turn anything up.  How can
> > I enable focus-follows-mouse without auto-raise in Gnome-shell?
>
> You have to enable it in gnome-tweak-tool, dconf-editor or the gsettings
> command line tool.

Afaik it's not exposed in the tweak tool UI. Just set the key
"/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode" to either "sloppy" or "mouse" (there
used to be a difference between these two but I don't see it anymore in
2.34).

E.g. from the command line:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode sloppy

Or set it graphically via gconf-editor but this will require installing
extra packages.

Regards.
Bryn.

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 03 May 2011 14:18:51 +0100
Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> Afaik it's not exposed in the tweak tool UI. Just set the key
> "/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode" to either "sloppy" or "mouse" (there
> used to be a difference between these two but I don't see it anymore in
> 2.34).

This certainly confuses me. I thought the new window manager
was mutter, so why does setting keys for metacity have
an effect? (It does indeed work, mind you, I just don't
know why).

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom Horsley ([e-mail]) said:
> > Afaik it's not exposed in the tweak tool UI. Just set the key
> > "/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode" to either "sloppy" or "mouse" (there
> > used to be a difference between these two but I don't see it anymore in
> > 2.34).
>
> This certainly confuses me. I thought the new window manager
> was mutter, so why does setting keys for metacity have
> an effect? (It does indeed work, mind you, I just don't
> know why).

They share a good deal of code, so they share configuration keys. Also,
it better allows for sharing of settings like this between the normal mode
(which uses mutter) and the fallback mode (that uses metacity.)

Bill

[Josep Puigdemont]

El dl 02 de 05 de 2011 a les 08:46 -0400, en/na Matthew Saltzman va
escriure:
> This must be a FAQ here, but googling didn't turn anything up.  How can
> I enable focus-follows-mouse without auto-raise in Gnome-shell?

I used gconftool here:

$ gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode
sloppy

/Josep

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 19:26 +0200, Josep Puigdemont wrote:
> El dl 02 de 05 de 2011 a les 08:46 -0400, en/na Matthew Saltzman va
> escriure:
> > This must be a FAQ here, but googling didn't turn anything up.  How can
> > I enable focus-follows-mouse without auto-raise in Gnome-shell?
>
> I used gconftool here:
>
> $ gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode
> sloppy

Thanks!
> /Josep