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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".

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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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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