Re: Window Manager Behaviour (Gnome)

[Rob Kirkbride <rob kirkbride thales-is com>]

John Haxby wrote on 01/12/2004 15:21:

> Rob Kirkbride wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how to change the behaviour of the desktop such that  :
> >
> > 1) If you have focus following mouse you need to click on the title 
> > bar to bring it the front rather than allowing a click anywhere in 
> > the window.
> > 2) When you click the title bar to do this it doesn't start thinking 
> > you want to move the window.
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is more helpful or not, but KDE allows much more 
> control and I think it includes what you're asking.  I gave gnome a 
> whirl early on on Taroon and gave up on it because I couldn't get on 
> with the default settings.   Going (back) to KDE was wonderful -- I no 
> longer felt I was struggling against the desktop.


Thanks. I may do this if no-one else is able to help me out. I suspect I 
can fiddle around with something in the gconf editor but it's not at all 
clear to me!

Rob