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Under KDE, when clicking a window when there's a modal open does not focus the modal
Recently migrated from Windows user here.
When a window has a child modal window visible, clicking that window will focus the modal.
In KDE, that does not happen.
Say I have window A that is disabled ...
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debian sddm window manager: set focus-mode to either sloppy or mouse: no effect
On debian version 12.8 fully upgraded, sddm window manager. Using either gsetting or dconf-editor, I can set and verify org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode to either sloppy or mouse but ...
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i3wm: How to automatically switch workspace when a window of a specific application requests focus?
I tried focus_on_window_activation with focus, but it doesn't do anything. I guess it only works on same workspace. Or maybe I am using it wrong?
for_window [class="Chromium"] ...
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XFCE fullscreen apps go to background when not in focus
My desktop is running xfce4, and I have sloppy focus, and a multi-monitor setup.
When I move the mouse off a fullscreen window (to the other monitor) (be it the web browser in full screen, or an image ...
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Is it possible to tell xdg-open (or alikes) to open a window in the background?
I am using xdg-open with cronjobs to open our time-management web-app once per hour to log my time (among other repeating things). This works very well, but has an annoying usability problem. Once ...
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how to prevent input focus for a single window in gnome-shell window manager?
I need a single window to be on top and never gain focus when any other window is closed.
In this case it is a gnome-terminal window w/o decorations, where I am running nethogs, it has a single ...
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How to make "Focus follow mouse" for Dolphin File Explorer?
I use Dolphin file explorer, within which I frequently switch back and forth to the terminal panel. So I was wondering how to make "Focus follow mouse" within Dolphin, so that I don't need to click ...
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Setup notify-send click action
Given some simple notify-send command inside a bash script such as
notify-send "test"
How can I make a determinate window gain focus when the user clicks that notification? I thought playing around ...
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How do I detect whether my terminal has focus in the GUI from a shell script?
Problem/Goal description
Ideally, I would like a good way of detecting from a shell script whether or not the window has focus. By a "good" way, I mean some way which requires minimal steps and ...
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Focus preservation in i3wm
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How do I implement the no_focus directive in i3wm and how do I dynamically assign a program to a workspace based on the workspace where I key the binding to open the program (i.e., I press the ...
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Navigate to previously focused window in xmonad
Is there any module that supports this functionality? If not - does anyone know how to implement this?
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Xdotool action without focusing
Is there a way to automatically click at a specific place in specific window without getting the window focused?
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XFCE Focus/Event Handling
In XFCE I defined Ctrl+Shift+Space to open the system menu. After installing Intellij I noticed that it uses that shortcut in a useful way. However, if I press it the system menu pops up. This is ...
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How do I run a KWin script from the console (to set focus to a specific window in KDE)?
I need to set focus to VirtualBox in KDE, I've written a KWin script for the purpose but I cannot figure out how to run it from console.
What I have tried:
This KWin script works in the Desktop ...
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Set mouse focus on current screen's active window
I was using Synergy from Symless. It shares the mouse and keyboard between computers. So it is similar to having secondary or third screen attached to your computer.
The Scenario is: having a laptop ...
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