What's the difference between "mouse" and "sloppy"?
The mouse mode will set focus on the desktop when the mouse hovers over a desktop area that has no open window, whereas the sloppy mode does not. The sloppy mode changes focus only if the mouse hovers over a window.
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Yishu Fang over 1 year
From the GConf key description:
The window focus mode indicates how windows are activated. It has three possible values; "click" means windows must be clicked in order to focus them, "sloppy" means windows are focused when the mouse enters the window, and "mouse" means windows are focused when the mouse enters the window and unfocused when the mouse leaves the window.
When I configure
focus_mode
using gconf-editor,/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode
, I can't tell the difference betweenmouse
andsloppy
.When I set this key as
mouse
, the focus is still on that window if I hover the cursor to the background.-
Admin about 12 yearsif you fit the method in Windows, just set the value to be 'mouse'.Otherwise, I prefer the 'sloppy' plan.
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stephenmyall about 12 yearsi would like to understand the answer to this question also, but the answer above is a bit vague and maybe opinionated. Can you elaborate?
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Yishu Fang about 12 years@freal, I don't quite understand you... perhaps you mean
click
?
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Yishu Fang about 12 yearsPerhaps, you don't understand what I am asking... just like the comment of @Stephen Myall
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Myfreedom614 about 12 yearsI know what you say that windows are unfocused when the mouse leaves the window is useless,I will test it on my computer @UniMouS