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Clicking on certain parts of the image window does not active it. Pere Pujal i Carabantes 08 Sep 12:55
Pere Pujal i Carabantes
2007-09-08 12:55:18 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Clicking on certain parts of the image window does not active it.

Hi all!

Start gimp, display the layers dialog and open two diferent files or create and draw something on one of them. In the toolbox go to file -> preferences -->Window management and uncheck "Activate the focused image" click on OK

Now click on a window image in the middle, layers dialog thumbnails updates to that image.

Now click on the scrollbar or quick mask or the zoom botton or the units botton of the other image, layers dialog does not update.

If instead you click on menubar, main image, helper rules, state... the image is activated.

Is this the expected behaviour? If yes, can someone explain what are the advantages?

I understand that when you have a window manager configured to "focus follow mouse", maybe you don't want an image get activated by accident just by passing the mouse over, but why the need to click on specific parts of the window to activate the image?

Yours Pere