Re: [e-users] Problems with windows focus
Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:55:48 +0100
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Same here: always on and never had any problem, until now. At some point one or more windows started losing focus for some odd reason and that made me crazy. Massimo Maiurana Carsten Haitzler ha scritto il 24/02/26 alle 22:50: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:30:47 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]> said: > > i have that one on and have had so forever and don't see what you describe... ? > >> Problem solved! :) >> >> I just deactivated "Focus last focused window on lost focus" option. Odd >> that this option has always been there since i started using E but never >> had any problem with it. Clearly in the past the focus was never lost >> and now for some reason it gets lost every now and then. >> >> Massimo Maiurana >> >> Massimo Maiurana ha scritto il 14/02/26 alle 16:58: >>> One more thing: i noticed sometimes that the focus goes indeed to the >>> window where i go but just for one second or less and then goes >>> elsewhere, so if i'm fast enough clicking inside it it reamins there. >>> >>> Massimo Maiurana >>> >>> Massimo Maiurana ha scritto il 14/02/26 alle 14:41: >>>> 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. >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users >> >