On 15 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Bob Doolittle wrote:

> Thanks Calum, but that's a very specific application of "click and  
> drag", as applied to a policy that otherwise always raises windows  
> on clicks. That's indeed hard to solve, nice as it would be to have.

Yep, apologies, I read your email a bit too quickly :)

> However, what we are asking for is more generic, simpler to  
> implement, and would solve this problem (for the special case we  
> care about, anyway). Simply: provide an option which says "don't  
> raise a window on a click". This is important to people who want to  
> work in environments with partially-obscured windows.

As Brian posted, there is a gconf setting to disable raise-on-click,  
but it's not exposed in the GUI for the reasons mentioned in 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445447#c11 
 >.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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