At 3:52 PM +0100 2/9/07, Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: >Am Freitag, den 09.02.2007, 09:08 -0500 schrieb Tony Nelson: >> 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. > >I can confirm that - just testet Gnome - it works here as well. > >Then let me precise my question: >Does anybody know how this behavior can be configured within KDE? No, but come to think of it, I have Kwrite and it also lets me scroll Firefox in the background without losing focus while typing. Of course, I'm running Gnome/Metacity and not KDE. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
