Enable Window Activate on Mouseover

[ChaseEatsWorlds]

I just installed 12.04 and I can't find out how to re-enable the setting on previous versions that would activate a window when you moved the mouse over it. It's a little thing but it really bugs me.

[stinkeye]

ccsm > general options > focus and raise behaviour
Unmark click to focus

[fragos]

That feature is in metacity which is still used, even with compiz running. Run the gconf-editer -- apps -- metacity -- general -- focus_mode. This is probably set to click. I recommend you set focus_mode to sloppy. Focus changes when the cursor enters a new window, you can move the cursor to the Desktop without changing focus.

[stinkeye]

That feature is in metacity which is still used, even with compiz running. Run the gconf-editer -- apps -- metacity -- general -- focus_mode. This is probably set to click. I recommend you set focus_mode to sloppy. Focus changes when the cursor enters a new window, you can move the cursor to the Desktop without changing focus.

Same thing really.
When you Unmark click to focus in ccsm
it changes the gconf setting to sloppy.

[markbl]

I just installed 12.04 and I can't find out how to re-enable the setting on previous versions that would activate a window when you moved the mouse over it. It's a little thing but it really bugs me.

But sloppy/mouse focus doesn't really work with Unity because you may select another window/app as cross over it to get to the global menu. I've preferred sloppy focus for many years but am reluctantly weaning myself off it now.

[stinkeye]

But sloppy/mouse focus doesn't really work with Unity because you may select another window/app as cross over it to get to the global menu. I've preferred sloppy focus for many years but am reluctantly weaning myself off it now.

Yeah, I've never used it but can see where it wouldn't work
with the global menu.

[fragos]

Sloppy with the global menu isn't the best match but if you move the cursor through the desktop without touching another window to anywhere on the top panel Global menu will be what you want. One problem with focus by click is that if you open an application with a hot key, you still have to click that new window before you can do keyboard entry for it. Sloppy fixes that problem. IMHO global menu is a pain with a large screen and multiple windows open.

[ChaseEatsWorlds]

Thanks everyone! Got it all sorted out. I didn't have compiz installed. The global menu thing rarely effects me because if I need the menu for something I usually have it set to full screen.