Is the "top" window *ALWAYS* the "active" window? In MS-windows it is. In X it is NOT (at least not necessarily).
When I hear "exactly like X" I expect the "active" window to be the window containing the mouse cursor and the "top" window to be one the top (of the stack of windows). The "top" window is not necessarily the the "active" window. In fact the top window is the active window *ONLY* if it contains the mouse cursor. I understand that X behaves this way because I configured it to behave this way. However, I feel it necessary to point out that "active" and "top" are not synonyms.
Now, having completed that bout of belly-aching, when I place the mouse cursor into a window, possibly a partially obscured window, I want that window to become active, NOT top. I've read in this news list that "fflw10.zip" causes a window to do both! One message said that with fflw10.zips, the mouse cursor's presence in a window "activates" the window. Another said it makes that window "top" (andalso, presumably, active). Does anybody know if a window in MS-windows can be made "active" with
