Adding more info:
The problem is that what's visible as the root window isn't really the
root window. It has some X client running on top of it, so it gets the
focus as the mouse enters it. I verified this by running xkill and
clicking the root window. It actually killed something, which
I'm testing it with the latest 16.04 update, running Unity.
I open a terminal, move the mouse into it, so it focuses and I can type
into the terminal. Then I move the mouse out of the window, to the root
window (no other window exists). I see the terminal lose focus, and if
I type anything, the
Public bug reported:
Switching to "sloppy" focus mode doesn't work and behaves like "mouse
mode".
I switched using unity-tweak-tool by going to Workspace Settings ->
Additional -> Focus mode. Both "mouse" and "sloppy" result in the same
behavior, with focus following mouse and not focusing on
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