At 5:22 PM +0800 2/9/07, Ed Greshko wrote: >Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> whenever I am using the mouse wheel in an non active window this window >> automatically gets the focus. Can this be disabled? >> >> Scenario: >> I am typing in kwrite while having firefox opened. Now I want to scroll >> within firefox not loosing the focus in kwrite. > >The simple answer is "AFAIK, no". > >When you want to scroll within firefox you need to move your cursor over >firefox for firefox to react to the wheel. If firefox does not become the >window with focus then the wheel and buttons of the mouse remain attached to >the active (kwrite) window. Using Gnome, GEdit, and Firefox, I can type in GEdit and scroll Firefox with the wheel without losing focus in GEdit. In case it matters, I disbled the middle mouse button as I used to get middle clicks when scrolling. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>