[Lazarus] Minor annoyance in IDE

zeljko zeljko at holobit.hr
Sun Jan 15 09:12:56 CET 2023



On 15. 01. 2023. 04:03, Don Ziesig via lazarus wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> It's been years (unfortunately much ill health/hospitalization) but I'm 
> back.
> 
> I upgraded to Lazarus 2.2.4 before getting back to work and my memory of 
> the annoyance from earlier versions may be erroneous (I don't remember 
> it happening in the past).
> 
> When I have a non-Lazarus window overlapping the main IDE window and I 
> move the mouse over the main window the main window raises itself over 
> everything else on the desktop.  This is exceedingly annoying.  My 
> normal muscle-memory is that I am the only one who explicitly raises 
> windows using a mouse click (too much MS Windows in the distant past?).
> 
> Is there any way to disable this?  I have looked at all of the 
> configuration menus/pages but didn't see any thing that looks appropriate.
> 
> Or might it just be the OS (Linux Mint XFCE)?

Some window managers have such configuration, focus on mouse over or 
similar, so that could be your problem.
Search for window focusing in xfce configuration.

zeljko


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