[Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

[ozbek at gmx.com (F. Ozbek)]

On 01/16/2013 12:07 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> I just installed a bunch of options on my F17 desktop to try out.
>
> Mate looked promising; it would have been my preferred choice, except that
> it turns out focus-follows-mouse is broken. I have it set to "sloppy", and
> it works fine in Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, LXDE, and XFCE, but not in Mate.
>
> I found where to configure it, in Mate's "Window" preferences, and I made
> sure it's set to "sloppy" there, but even with that setting, Mate is
> ignoring the setting and sticking with click-to-focus.

I am using Mate with Linux Mint 13 and focus-follows-mouse works perfectly fine.