From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: focus-follows-mouse
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85skww7c6p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd4o0mv6i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 15:06:14 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I just noticed that I need to click the mouse to switch the focus
>> between emacs windows (as opposed to emacs frames/X windows which are
>> switched between based on the mouse movement).
>> Even though the documentation of focus-follows-mouse makes it abundantly
>> clear that this is not the intent of the variable, I think it would be
>> better if emacs switched the emacs window focus based on mouse movement
>> when this variable is set to non-nil.
>
> You mean that mouse-autoselect-window should default to the value of
> focus-follows-mouse?
>
> This has been proposed and it might make sense, but I'm not sure it's
> a good idea: just like focus-follows-mouse is problematic in MacOS
> (because you may need to move the mouse over some other frame just in
> order to access the menu-bar), mouse-autoselect-window is problematic
> because you may need to move your mouse over another window in order
> to reach the menu-bar.
Not just that. In my window manager, I prefer lazy focus, which means
that accidental movement of the mouse does not cause any change on
workspaces with a single Emacs frame and no other windows (where the
track pad feels touched sometimes, this is quite important).
mouse-autoselect-window would disturb me.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 18:09 focus-follows-mouse Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 18:16 ` focus-follows-mouse David Kastrup
2008-05-05 18:35 ` focus-follows-mouse Sam Steingold
2008-05-05 19:06 ` focus-follows-mouse Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 20:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-05 20:56 ` focus-follows-mouse martin rudalics
2008-05-05 23:11 ` focus-follows-mouse Miles Bader
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