Re: [xmonad] Ignore single window for focus follows mouse?

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 12:54:28PM -0400, Norbert Zeh wrote:

wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu [2011.12.05 0948 -0500]:

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Quoting Joseph Garvin :

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The FAQ mentions you can set focusFollowsMouse to false to disable it completely, but I'd like to disable focus following the mouse only when moving the mouse over a particular window (the pointer going over any other window should still cause that window to get focus). Is there an easy way to do that?

Maybe "followOnlyIf" from http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-MagicFocus.html will help you.

Slightly OT: I was reading the original question and thought "well, this is really something esoteric that probably requires a homebrewed solution". So it turns out I was wrong. Wow, I'm impressed!

I don't think it's that esoteric. I use followOnlyIf for the "inverse" situation: I have focusFollowsMouse off by default, except for Gimp windows where it is enabled. -Brent