[e-users] Problems with windows focus

Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:41:46 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.enlightenment.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
i have a very annoying problem with focus since a lot of time, i don't 
even remember when it started but at first i waited for it to be solved 
by updates, then i tried to wipe out E's config and start from scratch 
but nothing changed, and further... i just hadn't spare time to write 
here :)

It happens very often, almost always, that i switch from one virtual 
desktop to another and click in a window, but mouse click goes to 
another window in some other virtual desktop. My settings has always 
been focus follow pointer, don't raise windows on mouse over but only on 
click, and it used to work until a while ago.

Usually it's thunderbird window that get the focus, which is always in 
desktop 2, but sometimes it happens that other windows get it. Keybord 
focus usually works, i.e. if i type i usually can see chars go to the 
window under the pointer but when i click inside it then the mouse event 
goes elsewhere. To avoid the problem i have to first click on the 
titlebar: if i do it that, window always get focused and i can click in 
it. I noticed that when i click on title bar the window is not really 
focused as i don't see the usual animation on the border, i see it only 
when pointer moves from titlebar to inside the window (of course due to 
focus follow pointer, but i would expect that even the title bar was 
considered as part of the window and i'm not sure how it did behave before).

Any hint would be appreciated.

-- 
Massimo Maiurana