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-Sometimes called "X Focus" or SloppyFocus, focus follows mouse
is a different
paradigm for selecting the active window
in your WindowManager (or on your DesktopEnvironment).
-
-With focus follows mouse,
the active window (the window
that will receive text if you type, for example),
is defined not by which window is frontmost in the "Z Order" (Z being the third dimension, "into your monitor", in cartesian space)
, but by which window the mouse is over.
-
-This is most useful for people who have multiple terminal windows open on their desktop. Some [Linux] / [Unix] hackers love it, everyone else finds it really confusing.
-
-.
+FocusFollowsMouse
is a paradigm for activating windows
in a [GUI]:
the active window (the one
that will receive text if you type, for example) is defined not by which window is frontmost, but by which window the mouse pointer
is over. If you look at the [BeOS Focus Follows Mouse example|http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/users/tips/tip26.html], you will get a good idea:
[http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/users/tips/resources/ffm-window-1.gif]
-If you want
this feature on
MicrosoftWindows you
can download
the [TweakUI powertoy|http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui] and use
the XMouse mode.
+Many [Linux]/[Unix] hackers love
this; it is highly useful when dealing with multiple TerminalEmulator windows. MicrosoftWindows and AppleMacintosh users tend to find it terribly alien and confusing. (But
MicrosoftWindows users who like it
can get it by downloading
the [TweakUI powertoy|http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui] and enabling
the XMouse mode.)
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-a few extra things "SloppyFocus"
is a particular kind of "
FocusFollowsMouse"
, it's the kind
where if you don't have your
mouse over any window then
the last
window that had
the focus retains it. With strict FocusFollowsMouse, no
window would have
focus.
+There are several variations on this focus policy. A common one
is known as SloppyFocus: in contrast to strict
FocusFollowsMouse mode
, where moving the
mouse over the root
window (outside of all application windows) causes no window to be focused, SloppyFocus means
that the last focused
window retains
focus until the mouse pointer enters another window
.
-FocusFollowsMouse is often combined with AutoRaise, where the focused window is raised after some delay (I like about
750ms)
+FocusFollowsMouse is often combined with ~
AutoRaise, where the focused window is raised after some delay (eg.
750ms). ~AutoRaise always involves a delay, as you obviously don’t want windows to come to the front just because the mouse pointer happened to travel across them.
