Mouse pointer and window focus in dual-screen displays.

Submitted by Andrzej

Assigned to Olivier Fourdan @olivier

There is an inconsistency between mouse pointer position and active window in dual-screen setups.

Both are important - mouse position decides on which screen new windows will be opened, focused window receives keyboard input.

This means, there are two "active screens" the user has to be aware of.

Multi-screen display would be much more convenient to use if these two mechanisms were merged into a single concept of an "active screen".

Possible implementation:

memorize which window on each screen were recently focused.
use "focus follow mouse" to switch focus between these windows when mouse moves from one screen to another.