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"Sloppy focus" is such a great productivity helper but Ubuntu 19.04 seems to have removed it.

The new "focus on hover" option (available from gnome tweak) means if I Alt-Tab to another app but my mouse is still over the old window then the old window immediately receives focus again - so Alt-Tab becomes useless!

Is there some way to get the previous behaviour back?

artfulrobot
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It's available in gnome-tweaks.

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Then run

gnome-tweaks

Go to "Windows" -> "Window focus"

gnome-tweaks

and you're probably looking for "Secondary-Click" option.

Comar
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  • Thanks! Wow that text is misleading "secondary-click" (?) and the text below in grey doesn't describe it either! There's still some bugs I think; e.g. with this secondary click option I can't raise the focussed window by clicking - unless I click the titlebar or hold the Window Action Key down and *then* click. Anyway I suppose that's a different question. – artfulrobot May 16 '19 at 14:19
  • Yeah, consistency is not a strong point of the GNOME developers. – Comar May 16 '19 at 18:08
  • In Ubuntu 20.04 (or at least the PopOS variant) "Focus on Hover" and "Secondary-Click" also raise the window to the front, even when "Raise Windows When Focused" is *not* selected in Ubuntu Tweaks there. Any way to only focus, and not raise to front, in the latest Ubuntu? – mlncn May 11 '20 at 11:57
  • In ubuntu 22.10 (gnome 43.0, wayland) this no longer works (I'd previously upvoted this as working years ago). Currently, same problem OP describes exists: " I Alt-Tab to another app but my mouse is still over the old window then the old window immediately receives focus again - so Alt-Tab becomes useless!" (There was a gnome extension hack but it also doesn't work anymore.) I'm really frustrated with Gnome (for 20+ years) and keep going back to KDE for the simplest features. – michael Dec 05 '22 at 07:07
  • related, but just like the answer below, no longer works (ubuntu 22.10) https://askubuntu.com/a/978404/17060 – michael Dec 05 '22 at 07:10