GNOME 3.8 released with classic mode similar to GNOME 2

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You're a bit late, gnome 3.8 was released back in March. HN story at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451646 .

(FWIW, I've been running it for a couple of weeks, and rather like it. A couple of the 'classic mode' extensions make gnome-shell a lot more usable (especially TopIcons extension which lets you have a useful taskbar), and it feels a lot more responsive than gnome-shell 3.6).

Can anyone verify if "focus follows mouse" and "raise on focus" are both supported?

Yup. dconf-editor* -> org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences has focus-mode (click,sloppy,mouse), auto-raise (true,false), and auto-raise-delay (0-10000) keys, all seem to work fine. (focus-mode is also settable from gnome-tweak-tool's 'window' settings).

* n.b. not to be confused with gconf-editor, which has an equivalent set of settings which won't do anything (it's being deprecated)

Thanks.

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