Cinnamon 'forgets' window focus mode

[Darren Davison]

In Cinnamon (Mint 16 Cinnamon 64-bit) I have the window focus mode set to "sloppy". This works fine for a while and then suddenly window focus stops following the mouse and reverts to "click" behaviour. Note that the setting is still set to "sloppy" but it is behaving as though it is set to "click". The only resolution at this point is to restart Cinnamon.

It's possibly due to a badly behaved window (The KeePass application which is written in Mono I think). But note that this is NOT universally true - I can often use KeePass without any adverse effect on my window focus in the desktop. Here is some output from the Cinnamon binary as I activate and use the KeePass window:

darren@hepburn ~/Desktop $ cinnamon
      JS LOG: About to start Cinnamon
      JS LOG: Cinnamon started at Fri Mar 21 2014 16:49:42 GMT+0000 (GMT)
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
      JS LOG: NetworkManager is not running, hiding...

(cinnamon:21066): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_actor_queue_relayout: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self)' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_focus: assertion '!window->override_redirect' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_focus: assertion '!window->override_redirect' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_window_focus: assertion '!window->override_redirect' failed
Window manager warning: Window 0x2a0238b (KeePass - ) sets an MWM hint indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 104 x 1 and max size 470 x 101; this doesn't make much sense.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2a02482 (KeePass)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2a02482 (KeePass)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2a0238b (KeePass - )
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Window 0x2a0258f (KeePass - ) sets an MWM hint indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 104 x 1 and max size 470 x 101; this doesn't make much sense.
Window manager warning: Window 0x2a0258f (KeePass - ) sets an MWM hint indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 104 x 1 and max size 470 x 101; this doesn't make much sense.
Window manager warning: Window 0x2a0258f (KeePass - ) sets an MWM hint indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 104 x 1 and max size 470 x 101; this doesn't make much sense.

[Sampo Niskanen (sampo-niskanen)]

I've been having the same issue since when I started using Linux Mint in version 14, and still have it Mint 17.1. Sloppy focus works for a couple of hours and then changes to click-to-focus. I also use KeePass (but haven't analyzed whether this triggers the problem).

Currently running Cinnamon 2.4.6.

[Keso (keso)]

I have same issue here, and I'm using keepass2 using cinnamon 2.8.6+rosa

[bill purvis (bill-billp)]

I'm running Mint 17.3, cinnamon 2.6.13, but am not aware of ever running KeePass.

I can run for several weeks then this happens to me. Only way to get back is to restart
Cinnamon. Bloody nuisance!

If someone can come up with a way to switch it back I'd be delighted!