In Jurassic park - the fat computer dude had a cool feature on his computer if you were looking closely. As soon as his mouse was moved over a window - the window jumped to fore/became the active window. In Windows I've only seen bringing a window to fore with mousing over AND clicking. Any way to bring to fore with just a mouse-over? I'm using XP. And if you happen to know.. Any way to do this in Linux?
2006-08-13 04:59:21 · 1 answers · asked by HomeSweetSiliconValley 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Hey cool! Great resource all the power tools for XP. And I really like the speedup of not having to click a window to bring it to focus. Thanks!!
2006-08-13 06:20:33 · update #1
Under Linux - or any operating system which uses the X Window System as basis for the graphical user interface - this feature (which is called 'focus follows mouse') is the default for some window managers, and a configuration option for others like Metacity (the Gnome window manager) or kwin (the KDE window manager).
You can have this behaviour under XP as well: Install the Microsoft PowerToy 'TweakUI' (to be found under http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx). There go to Mouse -> X-Mouse and check 'Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)'. Done.
2006-08-13 05:49:41 · answer #1 · answered by Frank 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋