How to make focus follow mouse

[Jack Morrison]

In article a...@needmore.cs.utexas.edu, en...@cs.utexas.edu (Brent Andrew Jones) writes:
>How do you make the focus on a window to follow the mouse pointer (so
>that whichever window the mouse is on will have the focus).

>I assume its a line I need to add to my .Xdefaults

Right-o [you can find this in the olwm man page]:

OpenWindows.SetInput: followmouse

But even easier, bring up the Properties window from the root menu,
and check out the Miscellaneous category.

[Maybe this should be added to the FAQ list?]
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[Charles Mullins]

In article a...@needmore.cs.utexas.edu, en...@cs.utexas.edu (Brent Andrew Jones) writes:

>This is probably a dumb question but I can't seem to find it in the faq

>
>How do you make the focus on a window to follow the mouse pointer (so

>that whichever window the mouse is on will have the focus). This
>seems to be the default on every machine I've seen except mine (I have
>a PC running linux, and olwm). As it is right now I have to click on
>the window to activate it which brings it to the top, and that's not
>what I usually want.
>
>I assume its a line I need to add to my .Xdefaults or .xresources
>file, but I don't know what it is.
>

I have
OpenWindows.SetInput: followmouse
in my .Xdefaults.

Charlie Mullins
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Brent Jones
>
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[Vidiot]

In article <2ku4v1$a...@needmore.cs.utexas.edu> en...@cs.utexas.edu (Brent Andrew Jones) writes:
<This is probably a dumb question but I can't seem to find it in the faq
<
<How do you make the focus on a window to follow the mouse pointer (so
<that whichever window the mouse is on will have the focus). This
<seems to be the default on every machine I've seen except mine (I have
<a PC running linux, and olwm). As it is right now I have to click on
<the window to activate it which brings it to the top, and that's not
<what I usually want.

OpenWindows.SetInput: followmouse
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[Greg Walker]

In article <2ku4v1$a...@needmore.cs.utexas.edu>,

Brent Andrew Jones <en...@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>This is probably a dumb question but I can't seem to find it in the faq
>
>How do you make the focus on a window to follow the mouse pointer (so
>that whichever window the mouse is on will have the focus). This
>seems to be the default on every machine I've seen except mine (I have
>a PC running linux, and olwm). As it is right now I have to click on
>the window to activate it which brings it to the top, and that's not
>what I usually want.
>

>I assume its a line I need to add to my .Xdefaults or .xresources
>file, but I don't know what it is.

Yep. This line in your .Xdefaults file should do the trick:

OpenWindows.SetInput: followmouse

All the X resources for OW are documented in the man page.
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