mouse wheel grabs focus

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sat Feb 10 02:33:12 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 19:33 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote:
> In article <45CC3D6C.1070407 at greshko.com>,
>    Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> 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.
> 
> Something RISC OS can do that Linux can't? ;) I can type away in a text
> editor (StrongEd) and scroll through my emails with the mouse wheel and
> StrongEd keeps input focus.
> 
> 
Check your personal setup files on the RISC machine to see how the mouse
and pointer operations are handled.

They may be different.

Regards,
Les H




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