diobrando
August 23rd, 2008, 05:48 AM
I'm suddenly having a very strange issue with window focus. I've tried just about everything I can think of and only managed to make it worse. I can't seem to pinpoint exactly when it started, but it may have been after an update.
I had it set up so I could click anywhere in an inactive window and it would move focus to that window as well as raise it to the front. Suddenly this stopped working (I am using gnome with compiz) and I would have to click on the title bar in order to raise the window, however I could click in the window contents and get focus for keyboard input, etc.
So far I've tried turning off compiz and using metacity (didn't work) along with various suggestions from other forum threads with similar issues (like turning on the mouse focus/restarting x/turning it back off, etc) I tried various combinations of settings in ccsm with compiz reenabled. I also tried editing the settings for both compiz and metacity in gconf-editor. Finally, I tried using KDE (same issue there)
Somewhere along the line I've actually broken it worse, as now when I click on the title bar I can raise a window and move it around, but to actually get focus on it I have to click the window title in the taskbar or use alt-tab. Turning off click_to_focus and raise_on_click in gconf-editor switched it back to mouseover focus and that works, but it seems like when I reenable those options I lose mouseover focus but don't get normal click focus back.
Suggestions, anyone?
I had it set up so I could click anywhere in an inactive window and it would move focus to that window as well as raise it to the front. Suddenly this stopped working (I am using gnome with compiz) and I would have to click on the title bar in order to raise the window, however I could click in the window contents and get focus for keyboard input, etc.
So far I've tried turning off compiz and using metacity (didn't work) along with various suggestions from other forum threads with similar issues (like turning on the mouse focus/restarting x/turning it back off, etc) I tried various combinations of settings in ccsm with compiz reenabled. I also tried editing the settings for both compiz and metacity in gconf-editor. Finally, I tried using KDE (same issue there)
Somewhere along the line I've actually broken it worse, as now when I click on the title bar I can raise a window and move it around, but to actually get focus on it I have to click the window title in the taskbar or use alt-tab. Turning off click_to_focus and raise_on_click in gconf-editor switched it back to mouseover focus and that works, but it seems like when I reenable those options I lose mouseover focus but don't get normal click focus back.
Suggestions, anyone?