Public bug reported:
As of 24.04 the feature known as "focus follows mouse" is officially broken
Did anybody else notice ?
Further explained in :
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/818598
Also, I have made a lovely 60-second webm video that illustrates the brokenness,
is there a good way to make that available here?
Rundown: when the mouse moves across the edge of a window, from outside
the window to some point within the window itself, then yes, the focus
ends up in that window.
But when the mouse ends up inside a window some other way -- for
example, the mouse was in a window that was covering another window, but
then this covering window got killed -- then the focus should "follow"
the mouse into the newly revealed window. (The mouse itself didn't
move, but the previously-hidden window now has the mouse inside it,
which wasn't true when the covering window had the mouse and the focus).
So the focus can end up in some window where the mouse ain't. Which: 1)
is wrong, and 2) is different from how it has worked for the last 20 or
30 years (in various versions of X windows -- including ubuntu 22.04
gdm3).
2024-09-27 still broken. I will submit a bug report unless somebody
talks me down off that ledge.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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