Re: address@hidden: Re: focus-follows-mouse should be nil by default on MS Windows]

[martin rudalics]

>> ... you have to explicitly click on the desktop in order
>>to "give it focus".
>
>
> That's the default, yes.  But one can tweak the Registry to force
> Windows behave more like X, in that just entering a window with the
> mouse gives it focus.  (I do this on any Windows machine I need to
> work on, because I hate the need to click--it requires that I move the
> mouse much more than I need to, and also precludes me from typing into
> a window while having another window fully exposed.)

I meant that with "sloppy focus follows mouse" moving the mouse out of
any window won't give you automatically access to the desktop, you do
have to click on it.  You can't tweak that in the registry.  "Strict
focus follows mouse" gives you access to the desktop once you moved the
mouse out of all windows.  I think that's the only practical aspect
where strict and sloppy differ.  Being sloppy is the first reason why
`focus-follows-mouse' doesn't have any effect on Windows.

>>Raising a window automatically gives it focus.
>
>
> Yes, I think this always happens on Windows.  Which is why
> focus-follows-mouse doesn't have any effect.

It's the second reason.  The third reason is that when a window loses
focus because you minimize/delete it and there's another window beneath,
that window gets the focus.  In both cases Windows automatically moves
the mouse to the window that has focus (if necessary).