Re: I want sloppy focus and click *WITHOUT* raising window?

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:55:30 -0400
Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Hi all; I'm a relatively new ICEWM user.  I used Blackbox
> previously. I grew used to sloppy focus (aka focus-follows-mouse),
> without raising a window when clicked in the client area.  This
> allows me to copy/paste between a full-screened app window, and a
> partial-screened app window sitting above the full-screened app.
> 
>   In ICEWM clicking on a window raises it automatically.  I do *NOT*
> want clicking in the client window to raise it.  Here is my
> focus_mode
> 
> waltdnes@d531 ~/.icewm $ cat focus_mode
> FocusMode=2
> 
> ...and all occurences of the word "Raise" in preferences.
> 
> waltdnes@d531 ~/.icewm $ grep Raise preferences 
> # FocusOnAppRaise=0 # 0/1
> # RequestFocusOnAppRaise=1 # 0/1
> #  Raise windows when focused
> # RaiseOnFocus=1 # 0/1
> RaiseOnFocus=0
> #  Raise window when client area clicked
> # RaiseOnClickClient=1 # 0/1
> RaiseOnClickClient=0
> #  Raise window when title bar is clicked
> # RaiseOnClickTitleBar=1 # 0/1
> #  Raise window when frame button is clicked
> # RaiseOnClickButton=1 # 0/1
> #  Raise window when frame border is clicked
> # RaiseOnClickFrame=1 # 0/1
> # LowerOnClickWhenRaised=0 # 0/1
> # AutoRaise=0 # 0/1
> # AutoRaiseDelay=400 # [0-5000]
> # ButtonRaiseMask=1 # [0-255]
> # MouseWinRaise="Ctrl+Alt+Pointer_Button1"
> # KeyWinRaise="Alt+F1"
> 
>   I thought that "RaiseOnClickClient=0" would be what I want, but it
> doesn't help.  If it makes any difference, I'm using the default
> theme.

   My only suggestion would be to put these preferences in a file
called prefoverride. Then if they are being set wrongly anywhere else
such as the default file in any theme they would be set to
your preferences. I'd also set those other click-raise prefs to 0 as well.
Other than that...I dunno :)




-- 
Frank<[email protected]>

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