Questions tagged [focus]
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On Windows 7, is there any way to make the scrollwheel's focus follow the mouse?
On Mac OS X I can mouse over something (without clicking on it or giving it complete focus) and use the scroll wheel to scroll it. On Windows (7 at least) which I'm forced to use in my new job, it ...
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How can I make a tab in Firefox falsely believe that it still has the focus?
In Firefox I would like to pass to another tab while an ad is playing
in the current tab, but the pesky thing will pause when its tab loses the focus.
I would like to trick the ad to believe that it ...
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How to get back to an active minibuffer prompt in emacs without the mouse
In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way ...
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How do I tell which app stole my focus in OS X?
The active window on my machine occasionally loses focus. The active app remains the same -- if I was in Chrome before, I'm still in Chrome now -- but the active window is no longer active. No window ...
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Flash overrides Firefox keyboard shortcuts -- how to turn that off?
I often cycle through my Firefox tabs using Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. But whenever it reaches a tab that is running a Flash (or similar) plugin, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab won't work anymore, ...
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Active window (program) unexpectedly loses focus in Windows 7
Something is shifting (stealing) focus from my active window (active program) in my Windows, as I'm currently using it.
I have the same problem as described in this question, with a few exceptions:
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How to detect a background program (in Windows 7) which steals active focus automatically?
A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen.
I ...
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how to prevent new windows from stealing focus in gnome
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and I have the window manager configured for "focus follows mouse" but new application windows will steal the focus. Seems like there are many threads out there complaining ...
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Prevent mouse over to give focus in ConEmu
In ConEmu when I have multiple panes active, a pane will get the focus when I move the mouse cursor over it, even if I don't click on the pane.
Is it possible to disable this behavior?
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Stop taskeng.exe window from popping up
I have several processes scheduled in my Windows 7 environment, mainly for backups, that are supposed to run in the background.
However instead of just doing it's work quietly in the background, the ...
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prevent any app from stealing focus in windows
Is there a way to prevent any app from stealing focus in windows 10?
I would like to open documents and run software in the background without them popping up whenever they're done.
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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:
https://www....
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How to make the scroll wheel to affect always what's under the mouse pointer? [duplicate]
It happens to me so many times that I roll the scroll wheel over some scrollable element, but the thing DOES NOT SCROLL. What's worse, something else on another part of the screen may scroll.
I know ...
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Why does the task pictogram flashes instead of opening the program?
Sometimes, when I select a click a program on the Windows 7 taskbar it won't appear (it doesn't gain focus and remains behind other open windows), and the icon will flash and turn orange. This happens ...
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Is there a way to keep applications in Mac OS X from stealing focus?
I realize I asked this question in the context of switching spaces and that it has been asked about for Windows, and I've seen some discussion of it elsewhere, but I realize I want to stop ...
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Keep Fullscreen Flash/Silverlight Video opened on Monitor 2
Like many of you, I'm working with two monitors. I'm trying to watch an episode on Channel9's vid-cast, but every time I click back onto my other monitor, the video exits fullscreen-mode, and goes ...
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Windows 7: Disable applications stealing focus
Is there any way to prevent specific programs from stealing window focus in Windows 7?
Windows 7 doesn't have the option of using PowerToys' TweakUI, which has been suggested in the past for stopping ...
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Windows 7 Explorer - Activate mouse focus to be able to scroll in tree and file view?
I'd like to be able to scroll in the tree view without having to click in it. Is there a way to do this?
I have once used a tool that generally gives focus to the window underneath the mouse cursor, ...
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Why does Windows Calculator always start minimised?
I often start Calculator by pressing the little Calculator button on my MS keyboard - but for some stupid reason it always starts minimized - meaning I have to restore it first before I can use it. ...
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Starting recent remote desktop entry does not put focus in the password field
When I start a remote desktop session through the "recent items" list in the Windows 10 task bar:
I get the credentials window as expected:
However, when I start typing my password, ...
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Focus issues in OS X Spaces
Spaces rarely returns focus to my last used window. Haven't been able to peg universally reproducible steps, but spend any time switching among spaces and windows and you'll come across this.
It ...
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Windows scroll without focus
So I have a windows 8 laptop at home, and a windows 7 laptop at work. Both have synaptics touchpads. The problem is that on the work laptop, I can scroll any window regardless of which one is ...
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Giving focus to a desktop icon using the keyboard
When I start Windows 7 none of the icons on my desktop have focus. I have to click on one of the icons with the mouse to give it focus. Is there a keyboard shortcut to give focus to an icon? (It doesn'...
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Windows XP shortcut key to focus a particular window
Say I've got several apps open and I want to keyboard shortcut to focus, or bring to the front, a particular window. Of course I know about alt+tab to cycle through windows, but it would be great to ...
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Google Chrome mouse wheel takes keyboard focus
I recently switched the default browser on all my machines from Firefox to Google Chrome. In general I’m loving Chrome but there is one behaviour that is driving me nuts. Scrolling with the mouse ...
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Is there a way to give focus to Chrome search result?
It is well known that one can use Ctrl+F to find textual content in the webpage, but after I found what I need, is there a way to give focus to the search result, so that if the result is a link or a ...
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How to update Preview.app from the command line without losing focus on Mac OS X?
I want to update Preview.app in the background from the command line without losing focus of my current window. I know that I can use the following to open/update the view of a file, but then I lose ...
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Give focus to file when clicking on it in the Explorer View
When clicking on a file from the Explorer View, VSCode doesn't give focus to the file, so you then need to click inside that file to start typing. I'm pretty sure it was different before, and it would ...
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Why does the active Firefox window occasionally lose focus?
Occasionally, when I transition from one tab to another, the Firefox window loses focus. This is especially notable when I switch or close tabs via keyboard shortcuts. For example, I can be closing a ...
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How can I stop Windows Taskbar from hiding a focused application when I click the app's taskbar item? [duplicate]
Currently, on Windows, if you click an app in the taskbar, it is brought to the front of the desktop.
However, if the app is already at the front it is sent to the back of the desktop, i.e. hidden ...
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How to disable autofocus in Zoom Windows?
I have a Microdia Sonix 1080p webcam (a Logitech knockoff, pretty much all that was available) and although the picture is quite good when it focuses properly, the autofocus constantly goes back and ...
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How can I find out which application is stealing focus in Vista?
This question is little different from preventing an application from stealing focus, rather how can I find out what the heck is stealing focus?
It goes like this. I'll be typing something in ...
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Bring OSX terminal to front after command finishes
I'm looking for a way for the terminal to get my attention after a command finishes. Something like this:
$ ./lengthy_command.sh ; focus_terminal
Is there any easy way to do that on Snow Leopard?
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Mac OS X: finder window keeps opening by itself and stealing focus
I have a Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11 here, with an annoying problem. After starting the computer and logging in, the finder keeps stealing focus. You can go back to your working app, but a minute ...
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Keystroke to set focus on a particular browser - for Linux
I am doing web development, and I found that I always lose focus on the browser that I am doing development on.
I always open other browser windows at the same time for searching, writing, etc. So ...
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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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Hide all application windows except a specified one on OS X
Is there a free and stable solution satisfying this kind of need and preferably having a menu bar to let the user to exclude a particular app?
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How to copy focused link in Firefox on Linux?
I have motor problems with my right hand, and so I drive my GUIs mostly with the keyboard.
Using the pointer (either mouse or any substitute) is not impossible, but slow and hard.
One of the things I ...
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How to automatically change the focus of Windows Explorer to a highlighted file?
I have a very strange question. It is about automatically changing the focus to the next file when the currently focused file is deleted.
I have here my scenario. When I want to delete something, I ...
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focus to newly opened terminal
I am using gnome-shell 3.14 on archlinux 3.17.3-1.
I have a keyboard shortcut (ctrl+alt+T) to open an xfce4-terminal.
My issue is that when I triger this shortcut the focus is not set the the newly ...
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Prevent a repeatedly running console program from taking focus
I'm running windows 7. Every 10 seconds, a script will run that will send a popup command line box and close at the end of the script.
In the meantime, when I'm using other applications, I am ...
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Browser keyboard shortcut for focusing first focusable element
Are there keyboard shortcuts in browsers to bring the element focus (tab key) back to the first focusable element on the current page?
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Removing Windows 10 double focus rectangle
For some reason, Windows 10 started showing double (thick) focus rectangle for desktop icons and listview items. It is 2 pixels thick.
How do I go back to single pixel (thin) focus rectangle as it ...
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Linux Mint ignores Mouse Click / Focus cannot be transferred to another Window
Why am I apparently losing mouse focus if more than one window is open?
I am using Linux Mint 13 64bit (Cinamon).
Examples where Chromium apparently locks the focus:
I open up Chromium and play ...
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RemoteApp steals focus from other applications
I have an issue with RemoteApp opened applications through Terminal Services, they randomly steal the focus from other apps.
When you have a RemoteApp application opened in the background and you ...
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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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Prevent Focus-Stealing from any PopUp Window [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7: Disable applications stealing focus
I have a really annoying behavior on my Windows XP System. Any PopUp Windows (e.g. asking me for my network signin) ...
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Geting focus when rotating mouse wheel
In Ubuntu when you rotate mouse wheel while mouse pointer is in a region (for example you can volume up or down without any click while you rotate mouse on volume icon in system trey), that region ...
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How do i keep a newly started program from taking focus? [duplicate]
Say i'm coding in emacs and want to start up a music program. Because it takes too long to start up i go back to coding and type away.
When the music application starts up, the focus is stolen (gasp!...
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