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arielmartini
arielmartini
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December 21, 2018

P: When follow focus is used, Photoshop bring window to top on mouse over

  • December 21, 2018
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When I mouse over photoshop it brings the window to top. This is really annoying. I use "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse" / Mouse follow focus / XMouse window tracking. To enable this, follow one of the directions listed here https://superuser.com/questions/954021/how-do-you-enable-focus-follows-mouse-in-windows-10 or use this tool https://joelpurra.com/projects/X-Mouse_Controls/

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    Adobe Employee
    dtristram
    Adobe Employee
    January 2, 2019
    I can reproduce the behavior (of Photoshop not raising windows) after enabling the behavior in other apps using the control panel accessibility feature as described here:  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop/how-to-disable-hover-select-in-...
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    J453
    Legend
    December 23, 2018
    OK. I will pass it along to our devs. It may not be a supported configuration.
    arielmartini
    arielmartiniAuthor
    Known Participant
    December 22, 2018
    Hi Jeffrey, thanks for your fast reply. Actually X-Mouse-controls only enable a hidden Windows feature. It's not a program that runs on background. If you see the superuser post, it can also be done by editing registry. Photoshop bring the window to top when activated. All other programs don't. So contacting the developer of X-Mouse-Controls will be of no help. If you still want me to do that, I can do it for you, my friend, but I ensure you that his answer will be: "Contact the developers of Photoshop".
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      J453
      Legend
      December 22, 2018
      Contact the developer of X-Mouse-Controls. We do not test or support Photoshop with this utility.
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