Questions tagged [window-focus]
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Preventing Accidental Clicks on Chrome Picture-in-Picture Window
I'm encountering an issue while gaming where I inadvertently click on the picture-in-picture window, causing disruptions such as moving the window around, pausing the video, or interfering with ...
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Multiple staff Mouse Cursor Losing Focus / Keyboard Dropping while typing
Issue: For months, many in our staff have been dealing with a problem described as:
Where, and When, we are typing- the keyboard drops / mouse cursor loses focus, and we have to actually click back ...
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Windows Click to focus without clicking inside
I'd like to implement functionality such that I can click click anywhere on an unfocused window to focus it without triggering anything inside. I'm not talking about hover / focus-follows-mouse.
Is ...
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KOrganizer: Reminders always in foreground
The reminders of KOrganizer always appear in foreground and steal focus.
I can move them to another monitor but I accidentally close them with Alt+F4 as they steal focus.
How can I configure ...
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VS Code - Need a way to add shortcut key <esc> to close the panel if the panel has focus
Currently in the process of coding MQL4/5 in VSCode because of the awesome extensions. Finding that a few of the (my) most used keyboard shortcuts are actually configurable. Looking for a short answer ...
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Is there a way stop the mouse wheel from changing settings as i scroll a settings window with slider and drop-down UI elements?
I am running Kali Linux with the Xfce desktop environment.
The problem is that when scrolling a window with many settings, the mouse wheel will change any setting that the pointer is over as i scroll.
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Lose focus when spawning process in neovim
I'd like to implement a new workflow for Graphviz in Neovim. Essentially, I want to compile Graphviz and display the results in a live preview using Evince or Zathura. For '.dot' files, I've mapped &...
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How to unfocused the current webpage in Microsoft Edge without using the mouse?
I'm using Microsoft Edge as my browser, and I'm wondering if there are any keyboard shortcuts available that would allow me to unfocused the current webpage, similar to clicking on a blank area of the ...
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Why does Windows 10 no longer put focus on the most recently focused window when closing the focused window?
I'm a power keyboard user, and I commonly follow this pattern:
Find a file in Windows Explorer, highlight it using all keystrokes, and hit "Enter" to open it for visual inspection.
After ...
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How can I prevent Windows Explorer from stealing the focus when a file transfer completes?
How can I prevent Windows Explorer from stealing the focus when a file transfer in Windows Explorer completes?
I use Windows 10 Pro 21H2.
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Is it possible for Windows to only change focus to another window upon releasing the mouse click?
I would like to know if it is possible for Windows to only change focus upon releasing the mouse click?
For example. I have Chrome full screen, and I download a file. Then I open Windows Explorer and ...
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Is there a way to open a new Google Chrome tab from another application without Chrome being focused and raised?
When reading emails containing multiple links, eg Quora digest, I like to open all the links in tabs the background, then read each tab in turn after I've finished with the email. This works with ...
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Microsoft Excel: how to disable the "two click" requirement when Excel window doesn't have focus?
In Microsoft Excel, all versions as far as I can tell (office 2007 to 2019), implement window focus differently than any other Windows apps:
When Excel does not have focus (i.e. you're using another ...
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Windows 10 - Force Window to Always Be in Focus
I have a render utility that when it renders image files it pops up in the background - when it does, I get 1/4 the render speed when it is in the foreground / Active / Focus.
Is there a tool or way ...
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Windows Japanese IME Toggling Automatically
Currently, I'm typing into SuperUser in the Half-width Alphanumeric / Direct Input mode, and the window with focus is Firefox. However, if I give focus to Notepad where I was last using Hiragana mode, ...
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