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Old 4th June 2010, 11:35 AM
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Openoffice.org ignores compiz settings for mouse focus

Openoffice.org apparently ignores the window manager altogether for questions of focus. This combined with opening lots of little dialogs and menus is making it almost unusable. (Over at openoffice.org, this has been answered with (essentially) "I use click to focus, so raising on focus is normal, so I'm putting at the lowest possible priority because it has nothing to do with usability.")

The problem is that I use focus following the mouse, with click to raise. This is very convenient for copying between two windows and saves me a lot of time and energy, as I have to do this quite often. Current behavior, however, causes Openoffice.org to raise any window you happen to pass over, thus hiding the floating toolbar or dialog box that you were trying to click on. Worse, as the window you brushed by has gained focus, in most cases, the toolbar or dialog disappears entirely. The only solution is to move everything around so as to have a path to get to your toolbar/dialog without touching another window, or to minimize all but one openoffice document.

Is there anyway to make Openoffice.org usable with this setting?
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Old 20th June 2010, 11:18 AM
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Re: Openoffice.org ignores compiz settings for mouse focus

This whole thing is really annoying. I'm currently assembling a series of scanned pages (one per file) into a single file, and if I try to search in one file, I have to drag the window over to where it overlaps the search dialog, then move over to the search dialog without touching the other document. This is not an example of usability! (On the other hand, the ability to copy/paste using the middle button and not having to raise-lower the windows as in certain other operating systems, makes it almost worth the frustration. Naturally, this functionality would be preserved if this annoying user interface bug were fixed.)
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