I’ve always loved the way the window focus (in Gnome, at least–don’t remember KDE) seemed to “kinda follow” the mouse pointer. It doesn’t change window focus, but if I mouse over to another window to do something, I don’t have to click once to get focus, and then again to do whatever it was that I wanted to do; I just charge around the screen and click to do whatever, wherever I happen to be. I’m mostly a keyboard person, but if I’m reading something, leaned back in my chair with my feet up on the printer cabinet, I’m not going to sit up to use the keyboard. Windows drove me batshit because there was so much extra clicking–I’d stop reading, mouse over to the other screen, click a song in iTunes, go back to reading and…nothing, because my click only changed window focus. Click-click-click-click…grrrr! Eventually, I “tweaked” Windows for something called “focus follows mouse,” which sounded sort of like what I wanted, and seemed to be my only option. Well, that drove me batshit, too, because the windows kept switching focus as I moved the mouse, even when I’d just moved it out of the way to read something. It was hell trying to end up typing in the right MSN window. It wasn’t long before I put it back to normal because it pissed me off. Not what I wanted at all. I didn’t know what I wanted except, “the way Linux does it,” but it turns out that it has a name after all. Not a nice name, mind you, but it’s a name. It’s called…sloppy focus. Sounds like something you might pick up in a bar after last call, but by Jesus, it makes my life easier, and especially with dual screens. Sloppy focus. Who knew? 😆