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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51284 is a reply to message #51236]

Thu, 09 November 2006 08:06

Marshall Perrin
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Edd <eddedmondson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDelst@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> That drives me nuts too. In my linux system window focus follows my mouse. I haven't yet
>> figured out how to get that to work on my Mac (I know it's possible... somehow) and I'll
>> move my mouse to my target window and start typing, only to have it appear in the window I
>> was just "in". Argh.
>
> There are several almost-solutions around, but perhaps the easiest is
> going to be, when you're working with X11 windows, to just go to X11
> in full screen mode with a window manager that does FFM properly.

Hmmm? It's entirely possible to have focus follows mouse behavior in
Apple's regular X11 window manager, quartzwm.

defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool true
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true

That will set focus-follows-mouse without autoraise, for all X11 apps.

- Marshall

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		Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Fri, 03 November 2006 17:07
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 November 2006 11:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Sun, 12 November 2006 18:07
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Thu, 09 November 2006 06:56
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 November 2006 08:33
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Marshall Perrin on Thu, 09 November 2006 08:06
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 13 November 2006 07:15
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Mon, 13 November 2006 08:40
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