Questions tagged [focus]
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On Windows 7, is there any way to make the scrollwheel's focus follow the mouse?
On Mac OS X I can mouse over something (without clicking on it or giving it complete focus) and use the scroll wheel to scroll it. On Windows (7 at least) which I'm forced to use in my new job, it does not work this way. Is there any way to change…
iconoclast
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How can I make a tab in Firefox falsely believe that it still has the focus?
In Firefox I would like to pass to another tab while an ad is playing
in the current tab, but the pesky thing will pause when its tab loses the focus.
I would like to trick the ad to believe that it still has the focus,
for it to keep on playing so…
alecail
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How do I tell which app stole my focus in OS X?
The active window on my machine occasionally loses focus. The active app remains the same -- if I was in Chrome before, I'm still in Chrome now -- but the active window is no longer active. No window is active. This is frustrating; it happened while…
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How to get back to an active minibuffer prompt in emacs without the mouse
In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to…
Ryan C. Thompson
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Flash overrides Firefox keyboard shortcuts -- how to turn that off?
I often cycle through my Firefox tabs using Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. But whenever it reaches a tab that is running a Flash (or similar) plugin, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab won't work anymore, because Flash has the focus and overwrites the…
Frank
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Active window (program) unexpectedly loses focus in Windows 7
Something is shifting (stealing) focus from my active window (active program) in my Windows, as I'm currently using it.
I have the same problem as described in this question, with a few exceptions:
I observed this behavior on (at least) two…
trejder
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How to detect a background program (in Windows 7) which steals active focus automatically?
A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen.
I want to remove this program from my PC, but I'm…
user79032
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how to prevent new windows from stealing focus in gnome
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and I have the window manager configured for "focus follows mouse" but new application windows will steal the focus. Seems like there are many threads out there complaining about this behavior, but I see no solutions, am I…
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Prevent mouse over to give focus in ConEmu
In ConEmu when I have multiple panes active, a pane will get the focus when I move the mouse cursor over it, even if I don't click on the pane.
Is it possible to disable this behavior?
laurent
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Stop taskeng.exe window from popping up
I have several processes scheduled in my Windows 7 environment, mainly for backups, that are supposed to run in the background.
However instead of just doing it's work quietly in the background, the task scheduler pops up a black (console like)…
BlaM
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prevent any app from stealing focus in windows
Is there a way to prevent any app from stealing focus in windows 10?
I would like to open documents and run software in the background without them popping up whenever they're done.
Jimmy
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How to Disable Web Page Checks for Focus, or Spoof Focus on Firefox Browser Tabs?
Problem:
Some web sites refuse to load unless the tab is active, whereas most users appreciate tabs loading in the background. This behavior may not be specific to Firefox.
Examples:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
https://www.chase.com/ (especially…
n00b
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How to make the scroll wheel to affect always what's under the mouse pointer?
It happens to me so many times that I roll the scroll wheel over some scrollable element, but the thing DOES NOT SCROLL. What's worse, something else on another part of the screen may scroll.
I know very well why that happens. Windows is sending the…
GetFree
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Why does the task pictogram flashes instead of opening the program?
Sometimes, when I select a click a program on the Windows 7 taskbar it won't appear (it doesn't gain focus and remains behind other open windows), and the icon will flash and turn orange. This happens reasonably frequently, and I've had it happen on…
fredley
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Is there a way to keep applications in Mac OS X from stealing focus?
I realize I asked this question in the context of switching spaces and that it has been asked about for Windows, and I've seen some discussion of it elsewhere, but I realize I want to stop applications from stealing focus in any context, even in a…
Philip
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