losing focus scrolling when focus follows mouse

Silvio Knizek killermoehre at gmx.net
Sat Dec 21 16:38:25 CET 2019


Am Dienstag, den 17.12.2019, 22:56 +0000 schrieb Piscium:
> Hi,
>
> I am using XFCE with xfwm. I have it set as focus follows mouse. If I
> scroll by grabbing the scroll bar with the mouse and if the pointer
> moves out of the window I am over the window below, the window below
> gets the focus. This is not great. I have been using xfwm only for a
> short time, previously I was using Openbox, and this does not happen
> in Openbox, where basically the focus does *not* follow the mouse when
> I scrolling.
>
> Is there any xfwm setting to have a behaviour similar to Openbox? I
> could nor find any. I did a Google search and a couple of people
> recommended changing an accessibility setting but that did not work
> for me. I am on Arch.

Hi,

untick »Raise window when any mouse button is pressed« in the xfwm4-
tweaks-settings → Accessibility. See
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/wmtweaks#accessibility

BR
killermoehre



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