Focus follows mouse with natty and gnome2

[brickZA]

Hi,

I'm using the ubuntu-classic + compiz desktop with 11.04. However, compared to older versions the behaviour of focus-follows-mouse seems to have changed for the worse when using the keyboard to switch applications.

In older versions, an app selected using alt-tab or scale or similar keyboard method would get focus, even if the mouse was not over it. Focus follows-mouse behaviour would only happen again if you moved the mouse to a new app.

In 11.04, the app selected using alt-tab immediately loses focus if the mouse is not over it. This makes alt-tab kinda useless :-/

Is there any way I can fix this behaviour to the pre-11.04 version?

[brickZA]

Wow, does no-one have any idea, or does no-one use focus follows pointer mode? :)

[haresear]

I do use focus-follows-mouse, but in my Xubuntu 11.04 installation, Alt+tab does shift focus to the selected window regardless of where the cursor is. I'm not using Gnome, so this probably doesn't help you.