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After upgrading to 14.04, right-clicking on the titlebar no longer raises the window. I use focus-follows-mouse and historically use the titlebar to promote windows to the foreground.

Is there a way to change this behavior? I've looked in dconf-editor, compiz settings manager, and unity tweak tool, but don't see anything.

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Try this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences raise-on-click

There is a litany of configuration tools in system settings, unity-tweak-tool, gnome-tweak-tool, and dconf-editor. Not knocking Canonical, it's certainly a hard problem. Rule of thumb, if you can't find it, it's probably buried somewhere in dconf-editor.

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    Jun 10, 2014 at 16:27
  • raise-on-click is very sucky, when I want to select text on a window, I 99% of the time do not need (nor want) that window to be raised. Also the OP was asking about the focus-follow-mouse behavior which includes not having the raise-on-click. Oct 14, 2014 at 3:00
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If you don't want the window to pop up immediately when you just click anywhere on it, you might like this solution: https://askubuntu.com/a/171140

I use the following for focus follows mouse + raise on < Super >Button1 click:

  1. in CompizConfig: Settings -> General -> Focus & Raise Behaviour - disable "Click To Focus", "Raise On Click" and "Auto-Raise";
  2. in CompizConfig: Settings -> General -> Key bindings - set mouse control of "Raise Window" to < Super >Button1.

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