Disable X-Mouse Autoraise in MS Apps

July 14, 2005 6:33 AM

I have enabled X-Mouse mode in TweakUI with "Autoraise when activating" disabled, but Microsoft apps (Visual Studio .NET, Office 2003, etc.) annoyingly still autoraise when activated my the mouse. Is there any way to prevent or disable this behavior?
posted by arathorn to technology (6 answers total)

Have you logged off and logged on and/or rebooted since you changed the value in TweakUI?
posted by majick at 6:46 AM on July 14, 2005

Yeah. The disabled state is honored by most of my apps, just not the Microsoft ones.
posted by arathorn at 8:16 AM on July 14, 2005

I gave up on X-Mouse mode for this exact reason—Visual Studio doesn't behave nicely. Not to say there's definitely no solution, but I searched around for a good week and couldn't find one.
posted by Khalad at 8:42 AM on July 14, 2005

This has nothing to do with X-Mouse. It's a windows thing.

I've searched long and hard on how to defeat this, with no avail. Stealing focus is particularly bad with Office, but VS will do it to me too. I'll be typing away in Word, while VS is compiling, then bam, VS pops up to tell me it's done, except I just typed about a paragraph of commands into VS.

I realize you know how annoying this is, too.

Everyone I've ever asked (IT experts) say it's poor programming. I've had other apps (Firefox) steal the focus too, so it's not an exclusive deal.
posted by kungfujoe at 9:59 AM on July 14, 2005

I haven't used it in a long while, but won't True X-Mouse do the trick? (Then again, maybe I'm not understanding what you're asking).
posted by gd779 at 4:16 PM on July 14, 2005

True X-Mouse works perfectly! Many thanks!
posted by arathorn at 11:54 AM on July 15, 2005