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I recall a partner in a CS class who changed my setup to focus a window on mouse over and that was really handy for programming with a ton of terminals open.

I've seen Dwell Click under accessibility options, but that doesn't seem to do anything. I know that sometimes the GUI control applets have features undisabled that don't really do anything (i.e. WINS) if you don't have the right stuff installed.

How do I get mouse over pretty much just simulate clicking the window.

(Using Fedora 14 with GNOME)

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    Just deleted my main answer as I misunderstood your question the first few times through. It's called "Raise selected windows after an interval" in System/Preferences/windows, but raising only on title bar is not implemented to my knowledge(I could be wrong).
    – user61724
    Jan 26, 2011 at 19:08
  • @Dan M. That's the answer I was looking for, it's not under "Mouse" it's under "Windows". I had a problem where it said "Window manager "compiz" has not registered a configuration tool", all I had to do to rid myself of that was metacity --replace.
    – Peter Turner
    Jan 26, 2011 at 19:18
  • Made that the answer
    – user61724
    Jan 26, 2011 at 19:29

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Pasted from comment above ^^

Just deleted my main answer as I misunderstood your question the first few times through. It's called "Raise selected windows after an interval" in System/Preferences/windows, but raising only on title bar is not implemented to my knowledge(I could be wrong)

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  • Yeah, that worked too, just installed gconf-editor, never knew that existed before thanks.
    – Peter Turner
    Jan 26, 2011 at 19:33
  • No worries, that is nice little tool to muck things up real good :)
    – user61724
    Jan 26, 2011 at 19:35
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Run gnome-tweak-tool.

Go to the Windows tab and change the Focus Mode to either Sloppy or Mouse.

For further details:

Install dconf-editor

Run dconf-editor

Navigate to org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences and check the other Focus options: focus-new-windows, auto-raise and raise-on-click. You can see a nice description

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What used to be gnome-tweak-tool is now gnome-tweaks

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
dnf install gnome-tweaks # if under Fedora or Alma Linux
gnome-tweaks

Gnome Tweaks UI

As you can see the "windows" menu gives you the option to focus on hover. I'm using it on my machine and love it.

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