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Bug 200193 - When using "focus follows mouse" windowing behavior, the IDE improperly moves to the front any windows that are undocked that the mouse moves over
Summary: When using "focus follows mouse" windowing behavior, the IDE improperly moves...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-07-16 22:51 UTC by mjoyner
Modified: 2011-11-16 16:46 UTC (History)
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Description mjoyner 2011-07-16 22:51:26 UTC 
When using "focus follows mouse" windowing behavior, the IDE improperly moves to the front any windows that are undocked when the mouse moves over them. Windows should *not* move themselves to the front by themselves. This should be a function of the window manager.

Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.0 (Build 201104080000)
Operating System = Linux version 2.6.38-10-generic running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_22
Runtime = OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 20.0-b11
Comment 1 Stanislav Aubrecht 2011-07-18 12:47:29 UTC 
sorry, but i'm not following your logic. if you have 'focus follows mouse' then undocked windows should be fronted when moused over...
Comment 2 Stanislav Aubrecht 2011-07-20 12:23:13 UTC 
i investigated a bit and it seems this behavior is intentional (since version 6.8 anyway), see issue #170976

if i turn fronting of separate windows off, many problems at other places will appear...