A
focus policy. The
window manager gives the
keyboard focus to the last
window the
mouse pointer was in. It feels like a cross between
click to focus (the focus is reasonably "
sticky") and
point to focus (no "explicit" action needs to be taken to transfer focus).
This is increasingly common in the X world (it exists at least in KDE's kwm, in fvwm2, and in wmx); to my knowledge, it does not exist in Windows in any form.
The most common way to transfer focus when using sloppy focus is to push the mouse through the window
Annoyances:
- Accidental mouse jogging is still a problem, though a much smaller one than with point to focus.
- May still need to click to focus on a particular text field of the window.