** Description changed: Binary package hint: kdebase In other words, "Focus Follows Mouse" _doesn't follow_ to Desktop. The original title of this bug was: "Automatically select icons" does not work on KDE Desktop It was partially correct, but the cause was the focus-setting not behaving as would be expected. The steps to demonstrate the problem below are still indicative of the problem. KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse has the following option: "Automatically select icons". It works in Konqueror, but not on Desktop [EDIT: This is due to Desktop - not gaining focus.] + not gaining focus. EDIT2 for clarity: _after_ you have selected the + desktop by clicking on it, "automatically select icons" works as + intended.] Scenario: With KDE's single-click-to-execute -behaviour, you would want to rename a file on the desktop. 1. Ok, select it, but how? - Left click - no go. - Right click - opens up a menu. (On which the hotkeys don't work when the menu is open. I'll file a separate bug on this one. See bug 45843.) - Drag a square over the file - works, but is clumsy. - Search the mouse configuration in KDE - "There's got to be a better way in here ### somewhere!" - Find "Automatically select icons" and choose it. - Try if it works. So, this doesn't work on the desktop. Works in Konqueror, as stated. 2. When you have the file selected, press F2 to rename - what could be easier. - Kubuntu Breezy, KDE 3.4.3. + Kubuntu Breezy, KDE 3.4.3. [EDIT2: re-confirmed with 3.5.5 and by Yuriy + Kozlov's comment also with 3.5.6.] EDIT: Further diagnosis. With "Focus Follows Mouse" AND "Focus Under Mouse", the Desktop _does not_ gain focus. Only with "Focus Strictly Under Mouse" does also the Desktop gain focus. Expected behaviour with "Focus Follows Mouse": - Focus follows mouse where the user takes the cursor. Also to the desktop. - Only when a popup or confirmation/menu or other newly-started program's window comes to the foreground, that window gains focus.
-- "Focus Follows Mouse" doesn't set focus to Desktop https://launchpad.net/bugs/45837 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
