I had the same problem, but with debian unstable. I'm guessing it is
the new version of Metacity that lost the ability to "click-to-raise".
I fixed it by switching to sawfish.

xterm$ killall metacity && sawfish&

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:

> I just upgraded my RH9 to Fedora 1 and have found that a couple of 
> things in gnome aren't working as they did before.  the important one is 
> that the window focus behavior has changed.  I used to have it set so 
> that the window with the mouse over it had the focus, and I could click 
> anywhere in the window to raise the window.  After upgrading to fedora, 
> the focus still follows the mouse, but the window doesn't get raised 
> unless I click specifically in the title bar.  Clicking in the main 
> window area doesn't work.  I can't seem to find a setting to change it 
> back.  Can anybody lead me in the right direction?
> 
> thanks.
> Jonathon
> 

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