I Need Auto-Raise with Sloppy Focus BACK

[kpearsonxyz]

Under Mint 13, and before, I could run these commands to get the focus to work the way "X" developers have forever intended it to be, instead of something akin to a broken Windows Desktop, like every other post for Mint 14 has wanted.

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gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode mouse
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/metacity/general/auto_raise true
gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/metacity/general/auto_raise_delay 450


That worked like magic, instantly correcting what has been for decades, "broken" functionality.

I REALLY need to have that back. There's nothing so frustrating as having the focus follow my mouse, but have the newly focused window NOT raise to the top. I'm typing in a terminal window, and my cursor and typed text disappears behind the previously focused window. Very annoying.

Can Anyone Help?!

Please?

Thank You To Someone With An Answer They Know Works. (Sorry for seeming harsh, but I've read so many posts in several other threads that seem to be what I'm looking for, only to find that the posters; all of them, want the functionality I'm seeing now. Really, it's not that hard to break it so it works wrong, like no "Auto Raise".)

[kpearsonxyz]

I've found this online: http://gheex.com/?p=15

and I also see the single comment lamenting that it doesn't work in Cinnamon 1.5 and I'm on 1.6.7. Also, on that page, it says to put a setting in compiz-1, but there isn't any creature in the gconf hierarchy.

So, back to the drawing board. If I find anything, I'll be posting it here, and hopefully someone might find a solution first because I have to research this type of stuff at work, so I just wanna do my own development, and autoraise should be 400ms, not go away.

[kpearsonxyz]

I guess there are not developers on the forums... I haven't found a solution, but then I haven't had much time to look. I have 2 jobs, both in I.T. and only one actually pays me for my time. I do consulting for I.T. as well, but only have one customer left (as an I.T. consultant, if I do my job right, the customer doesn't need me any more, or at least not very much).

I really would appreciate someone with an answer to auto-raise for sloppy mouse focus. It is how it was designed to work, and I fear it's only the M$ junkies who have migrated to Linux that have demanded a broken version of sloppy focus.

[kpearsonxyz]

I may need to return to PCLinuxOS because this distribution is broken now. nemo is a poor replacement for nautilus, and since focus is extremely important to how I work, and I work with Linux as my primary tool, I can't put up with broken distributions.

I could go back to Fedora, but I don't like having to rebuild/recompile things.

I might just learn everything I can about gentoo, because then I can control every part of the OS.

But I don't have the time to mess with my OS any more. I used to play around and enjoyed getting everything to work.

I'm now in my late 50's and have gone through Windows 3.11, windows for workgroups, and dumped windows as my primary OS at Win98se.

Okay, I'm rambling and it's now obvious nobody is able to help.

I may just move away from Mint for a time. The forum isn't as helpful as other forums. With senior folks like me never seeming to be able to find answers, it's now wonder that most Mint gurus turn to LinuxQuestions or Ubuntu forums. Or even just plain Unix.com, which may still be the best one out there.

Yeah, I'll go check there.

[mattdill]

Cinnamon is based on gnome3 and it uses gsettings to manage options. There OUGHT to be a checkbox in the cinnamon windows settings dialog to enable mouse focus and auto-raise, but until there is you can do the following from the command line.

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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode mouse
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences auto-raise true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences auto-raise-delay 500


The auto-raise-delay parameter is in milliseconds, you can set it to whatever you like.

[kpearsonxyz]

Very awesome. I doubt I would have found gsettings, or the syntax, without your help.

Okay, I DID NOT find them after searching for a while.

On older versions, I have drilled down to the %CONF% files in the filesystem, and manually checked settings after using the commands I used to use in Gnome using gconftool-2. Of course, they didn't make any difference, but your submission helped immediately. Real-time fixes are awesome!

Thank you very much. I'm a happy camper once again.

[kpearsonxyz]

I've done some sleuthing and find that 500 is the default according to /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.gschema.xml

That file doesn't seem to hold the settings, though it looks like it could, so manaully editing it, then rebooting may solve the issue. Auto raise is off by default in that file. Is that a system-wide setting then? Linux has become, more or less (and I hate to even mention it because I've used Linux as my primary OS for about 15 years now), a single-user OS like MAC and Windows, so having these default settings may become all that's needed with built-in "sudo" for commands modifying the file(s)...