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I'm pretty sure I would want things to happen more or less only when I take some action with my hands (gaze AND click/keypress). Things opening, closing, raising, lowering, or otherwise flying around purely on the basis of my gaze would probably be disorienting, or there would be a lot of false positives. ("I don't WANT that window to raise!")

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Windows don't raise unless clicked. They only take keyboard focus when hovered. Of course, desktop environments like Gnome and KDE don't do this anymore by default, to accommodate the converts from Windows and MacOS.

Edit: the focus-stealing prevention already built into window managers could be combined with the gaze tracking to allow you to type into one window while reading from another.

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