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I have my UI preferences set to Focus-Follows-Mouse. My platform - Ubuntu Linux 6.10 with default Gnome desktop. Hover windows (such as Java identifier javadoc, Inspect, Display window) disappear if I move mouse outside of the hover window boundaries. It's annoying because hovers are small and it is easy to accidentally move mouse pointer outside of the window boundaries, especially when trying to use scroll bar. Steps to reproduce: 1) Make sure your desktop windows handling set to "Focus follows mouse" mode. In Ubuntu Gnome this is System/Preferences/Windows dialog, check box "Select windows when the mouse moves over them". 2) Open some Java file, move mouse cursor over some Java identifier. 3) Eclipse shows a hover window with description of the identifier. Hover contains text "Press 'F2' for focus." 4) Press F2. The hover window gets focus. 5) Move mouse pointer into the hover window boundaries, then outside. What should happen: Nothing should change. The hover window should remain visible. What really happens: The hover window disappears. This problem can potentially affect other Unixes, desktop environments.
There are currently no plans to change this: focusing the editor closes its children and that's what you've chosen to do with your mouse setting.
Get rid of deprecated state.
*** Bug 382166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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