Comment 10 for bug 695570

On 20/10/2011 16:29, James Pharaoh wrote:
> This bug is very real and you can easily compare the difference in
> Metacity, which works fine.
>
> The point is that the window manager is in charge of, for each window,
> the location, size and stacking. The title bar and window borders are
> one way to adjust all of these. Another way is to use the meta key. The
> meta key method is useful because it will work in any part of a window,
> making it faster to use and also possible when the title bar is hidden.
>
> The problem is that while we can still control the position and size of
> a window using the meta key (meta+drag left for location, meta+drag
> middle for size, meta+click right for menu), the bring to top command
> has stopped working in compiz. This has normally been available with
> meta+click left.
>
> This should work regardless of the click to raise settings, just as
> clicking on the title bar continues to work. The two are equivalent and
> should function the same. By holding the meta key you are specifically
> telling the window manager that you are talking to it and not to the
> application.
>
> As I said, this can easily be seen working in Metacity. This is a
> blocker for me using unity. I love focus follows mouse precisely because
> of the ability to place windows exactly where I want them. Without this
> ability it takes longer to do so than it should.
>

This bug is fixed though. Alt+Click does raise the window, and I have been using
focus-follows-mouse since Natty. If not, you can configure both Raise Window and
Move Window to Alt+Button1 in ccsm, and click "Set keybinding anyway" or
something like that when the dialogue about the key binding conflict arises.
Then Alt+Click will do both things. This was the workaround I used in Maverick
before the bug got fixed.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin