mouse wheel grabs focus

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 09 February 2007 15:34, Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
Just tried, in KDE.  Focus followed the mouse to FF - I scrolled without 
clicking on FF - but followed the mouse back to KMail, so perhaps the answer 
for Henry is that he should scroll FF then move the mouse back over kwrite - 
no click required - before starting to type.  I did have to slightly scroll 
over KMail to get the focus back.

Anne
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