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Option to allow scrolling in unfocused windows #145

Closed a-priestley closed 1 year ago

a-priestley commented 1 year ago

Hi there, In newm, scrolling on a window focuses it, taking away the ability to action another window without re-focusing it fist. In other DE's/WM's it's possible to hover over windows and scroll their contents while retaining the ability to type in another window. Is this possible to implement in newm?

jbuchermn commented 1 year ago

I'm not quite sure how this would be made to work. Is this possible on sway? Can you point me to the relevant configuration?

a-priestley commented 1 year ago

I'm actually not sure about that one and I realize now that "other" De's/WM's I'm thinking of had been X11 based. Due to the isolating nature of wayland compositors it may not be possible without some script in the config. Something like:

On Scroll
    If other window is focused
        wait 500ms
        focus last window

Shouldn't be too hard for me to figure out, but the question remains--is there something more native to be done to accomplish it?

jbuchermn commented 1 year ago

Closing this for now, as I think this goes a bit beyond a single compositors characteristic