On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It depends on your window manager. What you appear to want is "click to > >focus" rather than "focus follows mouse". Another option is "sloppy > >focus" where focus does not leave a window unless the cursor rests on a > >new window for some period of time. > > I thought sloppy focus usually meant focus-follows-mouse except that > moving your mouse into the root window (i.e. a blank area of the screen) > didn't take the focus away from other windows ... I thought that is what I said ... kinda. If you do not rest your cursor on a different window (leave it on the root window) you do not loose focus from your previous window. If you enter a new window, it will gain focus ... after a configurable time delay depending on window manager.
