On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 6:44 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:08:29AM -0400, Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > > > I have the default Gnome WM installed. Does it provide a similar option? > > I did a web search (no, not the google) with the terms > > gnome metacity "focus follows mouse" > > (metacity is, AFAIK, Gnome's window manager) and the > answer seems to be... complex: it depends on whether > you use Wayland or not. It seems to "kind of work", > but in different ways. > > Look also for "sloppy focus": in general you don't want > your focused window to lose focus when you move the > pointer to the "background window". But perhaps you do > want that.
I don't know why you would force "metacity" in there, it's *not* the window manager, so no wonder you get weird results. Just enable "Focus on Hover" in the Gnome Tweaks settings: "Window is focused when hovered with the pointer. Windows remain focused when the desktop is hovered." It has worked flawlessly for ages, as long as I've used Gnome 3 (the default in debian for a long time), and there's no difference in behaviour between wayland and xorg.
