VLC Preferences contains a useful checkbox setting called Pause playback if minimized. What I'm looking for would ideally be a similar checkbox setting that might read Pause playback if window inactive, to use Windows terminology, just meaning to pause whatever's playing if another window is opened in front of VLC (which would then no longer have the focus of the OS). No matter how I arrange the words in my Google search phrase, I only get results for people wanting to know how to make it so that VLC still recognizes keyboard hotkey instructions when the VLC window isn't active. Haven't found anything yet for having VLC pause playback when its window loses focus. Yet I have trouble believing I'm the only person to have ever thought this feature might be useful. I often have the VLC window open and occupying say 20% of the screen area while I do other stuff, so if I want to open a document or spreadsheet or wtv, I have to make it a point to pause whatever's playing myself before the new window opens and covers the VLC window. Then when I close that work window I resume playback of course. It would be nice if VLC could do this on its own. Does anyone know of a setting or maybe an extension someone wrote that does this?
Note: Using VLC v2.1.5 Rincewind.