Unity, window management: how to raise?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:15:29PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 10:23 +0200, Jacques Beigbeder wrote:
> > And I have nothing else than autoraise and raise on click.
> > Do I miss something? How to raise a window on my request?
> 
> Install unity-tweak-tool, run it, select "Window Manager" ->
> "Additional" and set the focus mode to "sloppy".
> 
> - whatever window the mouse is over will have focus
> - windows will not auto raise
> 
> So cut and paste between windows means marking/cutting in one, moving
> over the other, and pasting.
> 
> There's probably a gconf setting for this, but unity-tweak-toll is
> simple and effective. I use it for hot corners too.
> 
It's in the Window Manager settings on Xubuntu.  It's what xubuntu
calls simply "Focus follows mouse", it was the default on 'real' Unix
systems way back when I cut my teeth on them.  For me it's the only
sane way to have things!  :-)

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Chris Green