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Linux: Chrome Steals Focus on click despite mouse-focus mode

Posted by Admin • Thursday, February 29. 2024 • Category: Linux

I like to use mouse-focus mode in Linux (XFCE), which also means that I don't want windows to get raised on click.  This means, for example, that I can have a piece of a window visible but not raised and copy something to/from there:

The terminal is not raised on click

However, Google Chrome does not honor this window manager setting.  Any click in a chrome window causes it to be raised.

It turns out that, with XFCE's xfwm, there is an additional setting to turn off in gconf:

XFCE Settings
Turning off raise_with_any_button stops Chrome from stealing focus

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