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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51146 is a reply to message #51145]

Wed, 08 November 2006 16:28

Paul Van Delst[1]
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JD Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:12:17 -0600, Christopher Thom wrote:
>
>> Quoth Paul van Delst:
>>
>>> Christopher Thom wrote:
>>>> Major pet peeve, though, is the lack of highlight-copy and
>>>> middle-click-paste in OSX. 5 months after switching, it STILL catches me
>>>> out. doh!
>>> 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.
>> you can get focus-follows-mouse behaviour with mondomouse software. It's
>> not free though:
>> http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/
>>
>> I tried it out, but it's not *true* focus-follows-mouse behavious, because
>> it always raises the new active window. i.e. you can't turn off the
>> autoraise feature.
>
> The top menu bar ensures FFM will never really work with the Mac. Say
> you have several windows from different apps. You move up to select a
> menu item, but before you get there, brush across a window of another
> app, and its menu is selected. Oops.

I have zero knowledge of computer work-environment on-screen ergonomics, but the concept
of a *single* top-menu bar like on Apples totally befuddles me[*]. Typically I have about,
oh I dunno, 15 or so windows open at any one time (in linux they are nicely organised on
10 separate desktops) and, not being a hot-key type of person, the fact that I have to
move the mouse all the way over to the top left to access the menu also drives me nuts. I
have one of those ridiculously large cinema displays and I'm wearing a patch through the
finish on my desk racking up those mouse-miles.

However, as you said in another post, you have to learn new tricks with a Mac. For me
these are starting to "sink in" and productivity is picking up. :o) Luckily my editor of
choice (nedit) is an X11 app so it still retains its grip on its own menu bar!

I should thank the newsgroup for putting up with my rants on this highly off-topic
subject. It's been cathartic, I thank you again, and I will now stop. :o)

cheers,

paulv

[*] I'll ignore for now the fact that apple windows only have *one* corner (I mean,
really, what the hell?) where you can grab and resize.

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		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 17:01
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:28
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:11
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:57
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:51
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:42
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:12
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:06
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:35
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 November 2006 13:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:32
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:21
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 21:16
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 11:09
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:31
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Mon, 06 November 2006 09:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: news.verizon.net on Sun, 05 November 2006 12:39
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Sat, 04 November 2006 07:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Fri, 03 November 2006 21:56
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 November 2006 17:14
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:08
		Re: Mac Cursor By: James Kuyper on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:37
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 09 November 2006 11:47

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