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Register first mouse-click in wallpaper when not in focus? #321

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
PROBLEM: Mouse clicks to Lively Wallpaper content do not appear to register unless the wallpaper is focused/active window?

Describe the solution you'd like
While this may be "by design" - it would be nice to have a config option to change this behaviour.
The reason why is because there are lots of web content/apps that I'd like to run in the background and it's a pain that, for every time I want to interact with the wallpaper's UI (press a button, dismiss a notification, etc.) - it requires two clicks: one to make the wallpaper the "focus" and then another to register a mouse-click.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I checked in the settings and I do see a checkbox that seems like it should be related (e.g. the behaviour I'm seeing might be expected if I ENABLED the option in the screenshot below), but I've tried changing this setting and not seen a difference either way.
image

Additional context
Here's how the behaviour works when using a browser (inactive window) and a single click (the click registers AND makes the window active):
single-click-works-browser

...and here's how it currently works when the same web page is running in Lively:
(single click does not register, just makes the wallpaper "window" active - requires a second click to register in the page)
single-click-fails

If you need any more info, just let me know.

Thanks

P.S. - This is on Windows 10

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