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ttencate / taekwindow

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.
http://taekwindow.net/
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Sloppy focus #13

Open ttencate opened 13 years ago

ttencate commented 13 years ago

Converted from SourceForge issue 1629768, submitted by ttencate

Sloppy focus (focus-follows-mouse) with optional window raising.

ttencate commented 13 years ago

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Windows has an option for doing this with the Tweak UI powertoy.

ttencate commented 13 years ago

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Indeed, I've used it for a while, but it works pretty badly. For example it is not sloppy focus, but focus-follows-mouse. That basically means that you can't park the cursor out of the way on the desktop, because that'll focus the desktop...

ttencate commented 13 years ago

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Unfortunately, the TweakUI approach isn't available for Vista/7. There's a registry hack, but it's horribly laggy---seems to poll where the mouse is every second then set the focus or something.

ttencate commented 13 years ago

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(The registry hack can be lagless if you configure it right, but it's not the default. Look for HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\ActiveWndTrkTimeout, set it to something low. It does this because it also raises the window by default, which sucks very much if you have instant focus.)