Re: fvwm2 and ClickToFocus (how to stop window raising?)

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From: George Sanderson
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:00

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byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:

:BTW it prompts another question: if clicking on the window selects
:it but doesn't raise it, then how does one raise the window short
:of going to the middle button menu?

one could double click inside the window or, more appropriately,
the drag bar. 

:I think FollowFocus and Autoraise is a good team. I just can't see
:how to divorce ClickFocus and raising the window on click.

The current ClickToFocus has very annoying behaviour for me.
I can't understand how anybody could use a program like Matlab
with this raise-window-to-front behaviour (just try using it on
a MacOS or Windoze machine to see what i mean).

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From: aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson)
Subject: Re: fvwm2 and ClickToFocus (how to stop window raising?)
Date: 1996/08/27
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