Questions tagged [window-focus]
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How to Disable Web Page Checks for Focus, or Spoof Focus on Firefox Browser Tabs?
Problem:
Some web sites refuse to load unless the tab is active, whereas most users appreciate tabs loading in the background. This behavior may not be specific to Firefox.
Examples:
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How to prevent programs stealing focus in Mint Linux 19?
I would like to prevent programs from stealing window focus in Mint Linux 19.I have tried changing the "Prevent focus stealing" option in the Windows preferences dialog (see screenshot below)...
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get focus only by clicking the title bar of xterm
I've suffered this problem many times and so do my colleagues
Sometimes after you stroked some keyboard and mouse combinations this behavior showed up : you have to click a xterm's title bar to focus ...
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Microsoft Excel: how to disable the "two click" requirement when Excel window doesn't have focus?
In Microsoft Excel, all versions as far as I can tell (office 2007 to 2019), implement window focus differently than any other Windows apps:
When Excel does not have focus (i.e. you're using another ...
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How to configure Windows 10 for "keyboard focus follows mouse" without clicking into the window and without raising the window?
The context
This is using Windows 10, Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299
The question
What I need is the window to remain in the background (perhaps covered up with other windows), but when I move the ...
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Prevent gnome from changing the workspace on focus when using multiple monitors
Currently I'm using two monitors, one for exclusively viewing and editing code, another for doing everything else. I have hotkeys set up to focus on either sublime, or firefox or the terminal like ...
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Automatically focus window on mouse hover only across multiple monitors
I have multiple monitors setup on Windows 7.
I want a window to be focused only if my mouse hovered over it when coming from other monitor (this is how it worked when I used Synergy with multiple ...
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Chrome App shortcut Always opens New Window instead of Focus on existing
I've looked everywhere still didn't find an answer to this.
In Chrome we can create a shortcut to desktop from a url, and open it like an App in a new window (like Google Calendar).
If I click on ...
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How can I force Chrome to open new tabs via middle-click/command+click/ctrl+click without focusing on them?
On most webpages in Chrome, I can middle-click/command-click to force a link to open in another tab, and it opens in a new tab while keeping focus on the tab I opened it from.
On some sites/links, ...
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windows: how to prevent background programs from stealing focus?
please don't misunderstand me, i do not want a tool to make a selected window always stay on top - there's already plenty of answers on SU for that question (such, as, these).
what i want is that the ...
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On demand keyboard focus indicator for all monitors?
Is there a way in Windows to indicate on all displays which window|process has the keyboard focus, only on demand by a keyboard shortcut?
(For example with a bigger and centered visual indicator (per ...
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Windows Japanese IME Toggling Automatically
Currently, I'm typing into SuperUser in the Half-width Alphanumeric / Direct Input mode, and the window with focus is Firefox. However, if I give focus to Notepad where I was last using Hiragana mode, ...
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Linux, MS Teams, pop-ups and focus
My organisation uses MS Teams for communication a lot; I'm running it on Ubuntu 18.04, fluxbox as my WM.
I'd like to know whether it's possible to stop team's pop-ups from stealing focus. It's ...
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Severe Linux Mouse Click and Window Focus Issues
I have recently been trying to get a working Linux install on my main PC. My PC runs on a GTX 1060.
I've been having this issue where my mouse won't click properly in what looks to be a properly ...
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xmonad: mouse hover hook
I'm trying to make xmonad focus the window underneath the pointer when the mouse is moved, regardless of which window is focused. This was addressed in this question; however, the provided solution ...
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Allow process to steal focus
I see a lot of information about preventing a process from stealing focus. My question is quite the opposite: how do I ALLOW a process to always steal the focus when it so desires.
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On a ...
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How to stop Windows 7 program from always being on top?
I upgraded Foxit reader to a new version, and now its window always has the focus.
Alt + Tab will not switch now to another window.
The only way to switch away from Foxit reader is to minimise it.
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Windows 7 Unable to Focus
I've been trying to dig around to see if I can find this issue to no avail. Doing anything in windows 7 to get the focus of a window besides clicking on the window or using Windows+Tab has no effect. ...
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Start program without focus
How can I start a program from a python script without its window becoming focused? Specifically, I'm using ImageMagick's display.
Environment: Linux Mint 17, Cinnamon 2.2.16
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Mouse focus stuck (Linux)
Sorry for crappy post layout, posting from my phone.
Problem: mouse focus gets stuck. Not sure how to explain it, I can sometimes get it to switch to a window, but once there it's locked until that ...
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Using Alt-Tab moves mouse to centre of newly focused window
I'm getting used to Linux way of giving focus to a window just by hovering over it with the mouse. I've found it's possible to get the same effect in Windows by changing a byte in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...
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Can I stop an OS X application getting focus after it has loaded?
If a program takes some time to load, I like to continue working on something else. But then when that program finishes loading, it gets focus.
Specifically, I am working in Eclipse, and then also ...
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Bluetooth "Receiving" window stealing focus on Windows 8.1
I am new to Windows as a daily OS at home, having been an OSX user for the past 8 years. The current most irritating thing at the moment is the Bluetooth "Receiving" window/dialog stealing focus and ...
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Windows 7 Window focus issue
This problem has been making me crazy - I can't seem to figure out the cause of it. When I have overlapping windows, if I click on the window "behind" the one that currently has focus, it doesn't ...
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All windows dropdowns close instantly
Any combobox I try to open in the system closes itself instantly after having slided open. This makes it impossible to select something in a combobox. An example combobox is the one allowing you to ...
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How can I prevent Windows Explorer from stealing the focus when a file transfer completes?
How can I prevent Windows Explorer from stealing the focus when a file transfer in Windows Explorer completes?
I use Windows 10 Pro 21H2.
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Can't click anything but chrome windows sometimes
I'm running multiple windows of chrome and other programs on windows 7. Randomly chrome is the only thing I can click on that responds and there is no feedback on mouseover. Clicking on irc chat ...
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Can AutoHotKey be able to focus a panel?
Some programs have floating panels within the main window. Since the ability to focus them with keyboard only depends on the framework they are using, is there a way to use AutoHotKey to do this ...
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Foreground application stops receiving keyboard and mouse events from time to time
I've bought new Macbook 12 recently and have this annoying issue when foreground application suddenly stops being foreground. It didn't happen all the time and I cannot reproduce this issue at any ...
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is it possible to make Windows highlight the active window/app?
I've been working with Windows for a long time. A few years ago my work environment got us a second monitor to use. It was fantastic, my productivity went up. Love it!
However, there's one thing that ...
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Programs won't have focus when opened
Whenever I open any program on my laptop, the program opens up without focus. I have to click the program window in order to gain focus. If I have another window open already, the new window will ...
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Windows 7 Update Dialog Steals Focus
Windows Update runs occasionally on my machine, but it steals focus when it pops up to remind me to reboot.
Trouble is, this can mean that while writing something, you could force an immediate reboot....
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Execute command when urxvt gains/loses focus
I would like to notify programs running in urxvt whenever they (meaning the urxvt window they are running in) gained or lost focus. Is this possible? If there is a standard solution for this, I'm ...
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Is there a way to handle separate input devices for different windowed programs, without losing/switching window focus?
I am trying to work out a solution for a faux-splitscreen setup where there are 4 windowed programs (4 separate instances of a game); each with their own input devices and window focus.
In essence, I ...
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Window often loses focus in Windows 7 on Lenovo B580
I have a new laptop Lenovo B580, with Windows 7. As I write, the window sometimes loses focus and I cannot write anymore. Or it happens that the cursor moves within the window. It behaves like is a ...
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send keystroke to window under cursor ( prevent focus stealing )
i m playing poker on a couple of pokersites with the help of several ahk scripts to send hotkeys to table (window) under mouse.
one pokerroom (carbon poker) though, keeps stealing focus and activates ...
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Can background window focus on mouseover be configured to update the Alt+Tab order?
I'm using Windows 7's focus follows cursor model, without raise to front. Unfortunately, the Alt+Tab MRU order isn't updated to reflect the focus change. Here's the behavior (^ indicates focus in Alt+...
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Why are my Windows 7 System Alerts not coming to the front?
Ever since I installed Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 on my Dell XPS M1730, system alerts (for example, the alert you get when installing software that wants to make modifications to your computer) will flash ...
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How to highlight my currently focused monitor (in multi-monitor display)
I have added a second monitor and am now working in a multi-monitor display (in Windows 7).
I have a constant problem with window focus, where I'm looking at one monitor, doing something with the ...
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Preventing Accidental Clicks on Chrome Picture-in-Picture Window
I'm encountering an issue while gaming where I inadvertently click on the picture-in-picture window, causing disruptions such as moving the window around, pausing the video, or interfering with ...
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Multiple staff Mouse Cursor Losing Focus / Keyboard Dropping while typing
Issue: For months, many in our staff have been dealing with a problem described as:
Where, and When, we are typing- the keyboard drops / mouse cursor loses focus, and we have to actually click back ...
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Windows Click to focus without clicking inside
I'd like to implement functionality such that I can click click anywhere on an unfocused window to focus it without triggering anything inside. I'm not talking about hover / focus-follows-mouse.
Is ...
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KOrganizer: Reminders always in foreground
The reminders of KOrganizer always appear in foreground and steal focus.
I can move them to another monitor but I accidentally close them with Alt+F4 as they steal focus.
How can I configure ...
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Is there a way stop the mouse wheel from changing settings as i scroll a settings window with slider and drop-down UI elements?
I am running Kali Linux with the Xfce desktop environment.
The problem is that when scrolling a window with many settings, the mouse wheel will change any setting that the pointer is over as i scroll.
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Lose focus when spawning process in neovim
I'd like to implement a new workflow for Graphviz in Neovim. Essentially, I want to compile Graphviz and display the results in a live preview using Evince or Zathura. For '.dot' files, I've mapped &...
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How to unfocused the current webpage in Microsoft Edge without using the mouse?
I'm using Microsoft Edge as my browser, and I'm wondering if there are any keyboard shortcuts available that would allow me to unfocused the current webpage, similar to clicking on a blank area of the ...
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Windows 10 - Force Window to Always Be in Focus
I have a render utility that when it renders image files it pops up in the background - when it does, I get 1/4 the render speed when it is in the foreground / Active / Focus.
Is there a tool or way ...
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Outlook takes over Window focus
I recently upgraded Office 2013 to v 2019 and ever since, Windows 10 Pro (64bit) loses its current window focus to Outlook. It seems to happen somewhat randomly, every 5-7 minutes. Generally, while ...
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Control key capture set up through Chrome Remote Desktop (CRD) to Win10 running Vbox running Win10 VM
I have a Inception like situation. My local Win10 ( at Home) is running the CRD Apps connected to a Win 10 at work which is running in Vbox Win 10. I installed, in the VM Win10, SystInternals to use ...
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how to slow down the raising of windows (in windows 10)
I have several full screen windows that I like to keep open, but I don't want them raising (too fast) when I open a new window (from the task bar) because I have to move the mouse over them to get to ...
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