From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 Description of problem: This new behavior is very inconvenient when a packed desktop is full of applications carefully arranged such that irrelevant portions of the windows are obscured. Please at least provide an option to retain the old behavior, by which bringing a window to the front took more than clicking anywhere in the window. It could already be easily done with Alt-TAB and by clicking on the window frame, but undoing the damage that the current behavior does can be very difficult at times. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.7.0-1
Alexandre: Please see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86108, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115072, or http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115753. Before implementing a feature like this, the maintainer wants to see attempts to allow windows to not raise on drag and drop operations but to raise otherwise upon clicking. Of course, if you're interested, I have some patches (as do others) to provide this feature.