On 12/20/2009 11:09 PM, Rob Riggs wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an editorial comment for the Fedora desktop developers. > > I've just done my first Fedora install since 8 or 9 with Fedora 12. > Why is it now so difficult to set up "focus follows mouse" under > Gnome? Click to focus is just annoying. It sucked for me when "click > to focus" became the default, but I could live with finding the > desktop preference and setting it. But it makes this user really > annoyed (Grrr!) that I have to ask about it on some mailing list, > install an obscure package, and change the setting. I get the feeling > the the desktop developers think they know better than the user. > > Look, I *can* work either way -- I live with "focus follows mouse" on > Windows. But this is one of the key reasons that Linux is my primary > desktop -- it sucks less and "focus follows mouse" is one of the big > reasons for that, especially when using multiple desktops. Point and > type -- not point, click, type. (Yes, I know it can be changed on > Windows.) It is especially annoying when not only does focus require > a click, but that click also raises the window. I want focus and > raising to be separate operations. There are plenty of operations > that work much better with the focus window not being on top of the > window stack. Forcing the window I want on top is a PITA that focus > follows mouse avoids. > > I don't care to impose my preferences on anyone. I am not asking for > "focus follows mouse" to be the default (though that would be my > preference). But please make it easy to set my preferences. Please > bring a little Christmas cheer to the Gnome world and make "Window > Preferences" part of the default Gnome desktop installation again! > > On F11 it's no harder then System --> Preference --> Windows <click> Select windows when mouse is over them.. If it's not in the menu in F12 on you system you can either go System --> Administration and type control-center-extra hash it and apply or just open up a terminal and type gnome-window-properties and it should ask you to install it if it's not installed on your system.