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Subject: Re: Name of `focus-follows-mouse'
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:

> "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@anthem.cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
>> `focus-follows-mouse' is the wrong name for a variable that selects
>> between Locally Active and Passive Input models.

> *Very* wrong name.  I thought it was analogous to fvwm's
> focus-follows-mouse feature. :-)

As John Turner has pointed out, there's more to it than that.  The
correct answer may be to have two variables.  One to select between
locally active -vs- passive input, and the other to select more
general behavior wrt to assumptions made about frame visibility.

What name would you prefer?
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