diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderDialog.ui b/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderDialog.ui
index 6a4f0c696..1c8628db3 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderDialog.ui
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderDialog.ui
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
           </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="feedAddButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Add new feed</string>
             </property>
@@ -98,6 +101,9 @@
           </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="feedProcessButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Update feed</string>
             </property>
diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderMessageWidget.ui b/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderMessageWidget.ui
index d1868a5a2..82a5ea7d0 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderMessageWidget.ui
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/gui/FeedReaderMessageWidget.ui
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
           </property>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="msgReadButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Mark messages as read</string>
             </property>
@@ -58,6 +61,9 @@
           </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="msgUnreadButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Mark messages as unread</string>
             </property>
@@ -72,6 +78,9 @@
           </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="msgReadAllButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Mark all messages as read</string>
             </property>
@@ -86,6 +95,9 @@
           </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="msgRemoveButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Remove messages</string>
             </property>
@@ -100,6 +112,9 @@
           </item>
           <item>
            <widget class="QToolButton" name="feedProcessButton">
+            <property name="focusPolicy">
+             <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+            </property>
             <property name="toolTip">
              <string>Update feed</string>
             </property>
@@ -187,6 +202,9 @@
          </item>
          <item>
           <widget class="QToolButton" name="linkButton">
+           <property name="focusPolicy">
+            <enum>Qt::ClickFocus</enum>
+           </property>
            <property name="icon">
             <iconset resource="FeedReader_images.qrc">
              <normaloff>:/images/Link.png</normaloff>:/images/Link.png</iconset>
@@ -241,6 +259,9 @@
         <pointsize>9</pointsize>
        </font>
       </property>
+      <property name="textInteractionFlags">
+       <set>Qt::LinksAccessibleByMouse|Qt::TextSelectableByMouse</set>
+      </property>
      </widget>
     </widget>
    </item>
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/LineEditClear.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/LineEditClear.cpp
index cbb4400a1..a2ec48c34 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/LineEditClear.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/common/LineEditClear.cpp
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ LineEditClear::LineEditClear(QWidget *parent)
 								"QToolButton:hover { border-image: url(:/images/closehover.png) }"
 								"QToolButton:pressed  { border-image: url(:/images/closepressed.png) }");
 	mClearButton->hide();
+	mClearButton->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
 
 	connect(mClearButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(clear()));
 	connect(this, SIGNAL(textChanged(const QString&)), this, SLOT(updateClearButton(const QString&)));
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ void LineEditClear::showFilterIcon()
 								 "QToolButton[popupMode=\"2\"] { padding-right: 10px; }"
 								 "QToolButton::menu-indicator[popupMode=\"2\"] { subcontrol-origin: padding; subcontrol-position: bottom right; top: 5px; left: -3px; width: 7px; }");
 	mFilterButton->move(2, 2);
+	mFilterButton->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
 
 	reposButtons();
 }
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/OpModeStatus.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/OpModeStatus.cpp
index cbfd77a58..96934c5bf 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/OpModeStatus.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/OpModeStatus.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ OpModeStatus::OpModeStatus(QWidget *parent)
 
 	setToolTip(tr("Use this DropList to quickly change Retroshare's behaviour\n No Anon D/L: switches off file forwarding\n Gaming Mode: 25% standard traffic and TODO: reduced popups\n Low Traffic: 10% standard traffic and TODO: pauses all file-transfers"));
 
+	setFocusPolicy(Qt::ClickFocus);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/SoundStatus.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/SoundStatus.cpp
index 148f51de8..753084c35 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/SoundStatus.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/statusbar/SoundStatus.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ SoundStatus::SoundStatus(QWidget *parent)
 	imageButton->setFlat(true);
 	imageButton->setCheckable(true);
 	imageButton->setMaximumSize(24, 24);
+	imageButton->setFocusPolicy(Qt::ClickFocus);
 	hbox->addWidget(imageButton);
 
 	setLayout(hbox);