Re: changed file while editing

From	David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: changed file while editing
Date	2021-12-12 01:40 +0100
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On 12/11/21 3:24 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-12-11 at 18:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 05:18:32PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday 11 December 2021 02:39:06 pm David Wright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another facility that I don't use is "click-to-focus", because I
>>>> prefer to focus a window just by shoving the mouse inside it (no
>>>> precision required).
>>>
>>> I prefer this as well.  Where is this set?
>>
>> It's a feature of your window manager.  Some WMs offer it, and some
>> do not.  Some offer multiple modes, and you can configure things to
>> use the mode you prefer.
>>
>> It's specific to your WM.  How you configure it (if there is any
>> choice) is specific to your WM.  Could be a thing you click, could be
>> a line you put into a text config file, could be *anything*.
> 
> FWIW in case it helps in looking: in my limited experience with
> configuring and reading about this feature, it's tended to be formally
> called "focus follows mouse" or "focus follows pointer".


See Xfce Applications Menu -> Settings -> Windows Manager -> Focus -> 
Focus model.  There are two choices:

* Click to focus (what I use)
* Focus follows mouse


There is a slider "Delay before window receives focus".  I leave that at 
default (~15%).


David

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changed file while editing mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 23:40 +0100
  Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-11 02:20 +0100
    Re: changed file while editing mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 02:40 +0100
  Re: changed file while editing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-11 04:10 +0100
    Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-11 07:40 +0100
      Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-11 20:00 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-16 21:40 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-17 04:40 +0100
      Re: changed file while editing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-11 20:50 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-12 00:10 +0100
          Re: changed file while editing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-12 00:30 +0100
            Re: changed file while editing The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-12-12 00:30 +0100
              Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-12 01:40 +0100
              WM focus, was Re: changed file while editing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-12 03:00 +0100
                Re: WM focus, was Re: changed file while editing <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-12-12 09:30 +0100
            Re: changed file while editing "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-12 18:40 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-12 10:00 +0100

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