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Minor annoyance in IDE

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Don Ziesig

Hi All!

It's been years (unfortunately much ill health/hospitalization) but I'm back.

I upgraded to Lazarus 2.2.4 before getting back to work and my memory of the annoyance from earlier versions may be erroneous (I don't remember it happening in the past).

When I have a non-Lazarus window overlapping the main IDE window and I move the mouse over the main window the main window raises itself over everything else on the desktop.? This is exceedingly annoying.? My normal muscle-memory is that I am the only one who explicitly raises windows using a mouse click (too much MS Windows in the distant past?).

Is there any way to disable this?? I have looked at all of the configuration menus/pages but didn't see any thing that looks appropriate.

Or might it just be the OS (Linux Mint XFCE)?

Thanks,
Don Ziesig

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zeljko
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Don Ziesig wrote 19 lines
Hi All! It's been years (unfortunately much ill health/hospitalization) but I'm back. I upgraded to Lazarus 2.2.4 before getting back to work and my memory of the annoyance from earlier versions may be erroneous (I don't remember it happening in the past). When I have a non-Lazarus window overlapping the main IDE window and I move the mouse over the main window the main window raises itself over everything else on the desktop.? This is exceedingly annoying.? My normal muscle-memory is that I am the only one who explicitly raises windows using a mouse click (too much MS Windows in the distant past?). Is there any way to disable this?? I have looked at all of the configuration menus/pages but didn't see any thing that looks appropriate. Or might it just be the OS (Linux Mint XFCE)?

Some window managers have such configuration, focus on mouse over or similar, so that could be your problem.
Search for window focusing in xfce configuration.

zeljko

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Juha Manninen
to Don Ziesig: Hi All! It's been years (unfortunately much ill health/hospitalization) but I'm back. I…

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 5:03 AM Don Ziesig via lazarus <

wrote: Or might it just be the OS (Linux Mint XFCE)?

As Zeljko mentioned it is a window manager issue. Not OS. My KDE also has such a setting but I don't have it enabled.

I hope you recovered from your health issues whatever they were.

Regards,
Juha
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Don Ziesig
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Zelkjo and Juha,

You are both right.? I found the setting in the window manager with two choices:? ClickToFocus and FocusFollowsMouse.? It was set to FocusFollowsMouse.? Changing it made the annoyance go away. Now the question is "why did it change in the immediate past?"? I did not change it knowingly. Maybe it was a stray cosmic ray ? flipping the bit.

Anyway I am back.? As for my health issues, next week I will celebrate my 80th birthday and the health issues all have to do with that.? At least I still have my mind and memory.? I can work around the physical problems.

Thanks,
Don

Juha Manninen wrote 15 lines
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 5:03 AM Don Ziesig via lazarus wrote: Or might it just be the OS (Linux Mint XFCE)? As Zeljko mentioned it is a window manager issue. Not OS. My KDE also has such a setting but I don't have it enabled. I hope you recovered from your health?issues whatever they were. Regards, Juha

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