Thanks for the reply Rohn007 but I already know how to activate the window with the mouse. I want to be able to make it so the active window does not come to the front unless I want it to.
Allow the active window to not be raised to the top
Question is for Windows 10
In Windows 7, there were mouse settings that allowed you to
- Make a window active by hovering over it with the mouse (ie. You don’t have to click in the window to make it active)
- Allow the active window to not be raised to the top. So I can type in a window just by moving my mouse to that window without raising that window to the top (as long as I could see the prompt to type).
In Windows 10, there is only one of these settings, which causes serious issues for the way we work with lots of windows and multiple monitors.
There are two options
- Make the window active by clicking it, which also raises it to the top – this is a problem with CAD tools and xterms because we typically copy and paste between windows, type in multiple windows, editors, CAD tool command lines, etc and we’re always typing in the wrong window (unless we click first).
- Or make the window active by hovering over it, which also raises it to the top --- this is problem with CAD tool gui windows because the small command and query windows that overlay the large gui windows get buried beneath the large window when you move the cursor over the large window. It’s also a problem when you have many different xterm windows open, in addition to text editors, outlook, etc. and as you move the mouse across the screen (2 of them in my case), each window you cross raises to the top. This is a disaster when you have 8 windows open and now you’ve lost the window you were working in behind whatever pops up to the top.
Is there a way to have Windows 7 –like control with both settings?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2018-01-09T18:39:32+00:00 That is interesting because it does not work that way for me. Whenever I hover over a window it becomes active and it comes to the front blocking out the CAD window that I want to see.
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Anonymous
2018-01-09T18:19:23+00:00 Greg, where is the "share" button in the Feedback hub. I've looked all around but have not found it.
Carville: That is what that setting does. I just tried it again on my system. I was able to scroll Word doc while the Setting pain <sic> had focus
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Greg Carmack 24,770 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2018-01-09T17:52:18+00:00 In addition If you want to express your opinion on this to Microsoft use the Feedback Hub app in Start Menu where developers are tasked to process consumer feedback. You can even click the Share button there to generate a link to your Feedback to post back here for others to vote up or add to it. They will not even see it here.
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Anonymous
2018-01-09T17:48:06+00:00