My mouse cursor usually hovers around the right side of windows because
the vertical scroll bars are on the right. Also, since I read left-to-
right, it seems easier to interact with windows at the right side.
I usually close, minimize, or maximize windows and work with menus using
the keyboard,
I've found how Pidgin handles this issue very well for tabbed chat
windows.
When you're currently focused on a chat window, I get the upper right
notification about a new message and a new tab is added in the current chat
window. Then, I only have to press Ctrl-Tab to see to the next new
messages
