Focus follows Mouse

[creiss]

Hey folks,

I am using current Mint Cinnamon Desktop, patched. I enabled "focus follows mouse", which seems to work after login for a few minutes, then stops working and falls back to "click to focus". The option in system configuration is still at "focus follows mouse" but no matter what, for the remainder of the session its stuck at "click to focus". A relogin helps, but this can't be the solution.

It seems that running some programs might trigger this phenomenon, like the "Baloon Tip" of nagstamon Tray icon. But even If i disable nagstamon (which helps) then some other(tm) Program causes this behavior.

Coming from UNIX/Linux I am addicted to "focus follow mouse" and this is driving me nuts. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Another question I am squeezing in here is this: I am coming from Ubuntu where I could use my mouse-thumb-buttons as launchers (browser and terminal respectively), can I bind those buttons to these functions in cinnamon, too?

Cheers and thanks for all your help,
Christian.

[creiss]

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[creiss]

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[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- launch a terminal window and make it fullscreen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[Fluxell]

Just installed 17.1 yesterday and this seems to be the case on my system as well. output from inxi as follows:

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System:    Host: apml171lt Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) 
           Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP EliteBook 850 G1 version: A3009DD10303
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 198F version: KBC Version 15.50
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: L71 Ver. 01.04 date: 10/09/2013
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i7-4600U CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10774.9 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 756.00 MHz 2: 756.00 MHz 3: 756.00 MHz 4: 756.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1: Intel Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Card-3: Logitech Premium Stereo USB Headset 350 driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 046d:0a02
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-37-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection I218-LM driver: e1000e ver: 2.3.2-k port: 3080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree: bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 512.1GB (51.9% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: OCZ size: 256.1GB 
           2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: External size: 256.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 15G used: 5.3G (39%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 206G used: 103G (53%) fs: ext4 
           ID: swap-1 size: 16.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0C mobo: 0.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 231 Uptime: 4:04 Memory: 8251.7/15694.2MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 

[Cosmo.]

In fact there is not really an option "focus follows mouse". Rather there is a windows focus mode option, where you can switch between "click" (this is obvious, what it does), "sloppy" and "mouse". Which of both is used, does it change anything, if you switch between them?