Re: Window focus

Len Lawrence wrote:
> On 14/09/10 08:17, Alejandro López wrote:
>>
>> El 13/09/10 20:48, Barry Jackson escribió:
>>   
>>> On 13/09/10 12:08, Len Lawrence wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On 13/09/10 08:47, Alejandro López wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> since a few weeks, I'm facing a problem on my 2010.1. When I click a
>>>>> window, it doesn't get the focus. The only way for a window to get
>>>>> the focus is to click on the borders or the top title bar. This is
>>>>> quite annoying.
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember that many years ago there was a configuration option for
>>>>> this, but I failed to find it, if it still exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea about how to solve this?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA,
>>>>> Alejandro.
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>> Yes, I seem to remember there were more choices in the old days.  I
>>>> prefer focus-follows-mouse, which can be selected in GNOME Preferences
>>>> ->  Windows.  If that is unchecked windows assume focus wherever
>>>> they are
>>>> clicked.  Maybe KDE has something similar.
>>>>
>>>> Len
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> Have you tried :-
>>> Right click window title bar->Configure window behavior->Focus
>>>      
>> I have no "Configure Window Behavior" menu when I right-click on the
>> title bar. Is this a KDE feature? I'm using GNOME/metacity.
>>
>>    
> Yes, that must be KDE.  I don't have it in GNOME either.  I occasionally
> see odd behaviour under GNOME for all sorts of things like the power
> save stuff going AWOL or the back delete key not working in a terminal
> all of a sudden but OK in emacs.  Usually things right themselves after
> a reboot (the easiest way if you don't know what is going on).  Perhaps
> logging out and in would help?

I don't know exactly when this problem started, but it's been there for some weeks now. In the meantime I rebooted the machine (my personal PC, not a server) several times.