| Re: Auto change window focus (OS X) [not-a-BUG] [message #43963] |
Mon, 09 May 2005 09:46 |
Bapts
Messages: 6
Registered: May 2005
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Well, I'm using both and I enjoy both !
It's just that I'm not used to fix through the unix side things that
were working before on my mac.
Usually it is the opposite, I first use unix to set up features that
become well integrated in mac os some releases later... (I'm thinking
about X11, IP printing, back when I was on mac os 10.1...)
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| Re: Auto change window focus (OS X) [not-a-BUG] [message #43973 is a reply to message #43963] |
Sun, 08 May 2005 14:49  |
Ken Mankoff
Messages: 158
Registered: February 2000
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On Sun, 8 May 2005, Bapts wrote:
> it's a bit far from the usual "plug'n play" experience we are used
> to with our macs... don't you think so ?
You must be new here...
Actually I didn't switch to Mac, Mac switched to Unix.
Yeah drag and drop is nice, but I spend most of my time using the
CLI, emacs, pine, lynx, etc. IDL isn't a Mac program by far, and
even if the installation were a drag-and-drop Bundle.app the
interface is by nature text-based, not Mac-ish.
I guess I'm just used to the 'real' *nix world where problems are
older so quick google or newsgroup archive search brings these
things up, unlike this problem. I guess thats what I get for running
CVS or nightly builds, upgrading to 10.4 before the rest of you did,
etc.
-k.
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| Re: Auto change window focus (OS X) [not-a-BUG] [message #43975 is a reply to message #43974] |
Sat, 07 May 2005 16:11 |
Ken Mankoff
Messages: 158
Registered: February 2000
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My bad... This is not a bug. You just need to activate click_through
events in the Quartz window manager. In a terminal just type the
following and then restart X11:
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true
This and other options are documented in man Xquartz and quartz-wm
The plot window still doesn't gain focus when clicked on (the
minimize/maximize buttons stay shaded) but everything works normally
otherwise. Actually, X11/IDL now behaves *exactly* the way I
originally requested: The plot window does not get keyboard focus,
so I can continue typing sans interruption after I issue a PLOT
command.
-k.
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