Thank you Robert and Calum for your input! Robert, your suggestion does modify the raise/focus behavior in Metacity, but it does not achieve quite what I want. The raised window still covers up any part of all windows that were in front of it. Calum, it's too bad that the metacity maintainers closed your item as not a bug - however, I suppose if their intention is to not allow the feature then that is their choice. I think my only solution is to try a different window manager. For example, I know that IceWM can do what I want, and I believe it is GNOME/Ubuntu friendly. Thanks! Drake On Nov 20, 2007 9:38 AM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 10:47 -0700, Drake Emko wrote: > > > I don't like it when you click on a window, and it raises to obscure > > everything that was overlapping it. This is normal behavior for most > > people (that is how it works in Windows), but I would like to know if, > > in GNOME/Metacity, I can configure the behavior so that windows don't > > raise when you click on them for focus. I would like to raise the > > window if I click on the titlebar, but if I click somewhere else in > > the window, I would like any overlapping windows to continue being > > visible even while I have focus in the partially obscured window. > > We have a patch for something similar in the Solaris version of GNOME-- > a gconf key which, if set, causes windows only to raise if you click the > frame rather than the contents. > > Ours only applies in focus-follows-mouse mode though-- i.e. it fixes bug > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86108. However the metacity > maintainers closed this as NOTABUG, so I guess you won't be seeing it > upstream anytime soon... > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum.benson@xxxxxxx GNOME Desktop Group > http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
