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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51151 is a reply to message #51150]

Wed, 08 November 2006 15:42

Christopher Thom
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Registered: October 2006

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Quoth Paul van Delst:

> Christopher Thom wrote:
>
> Yeah, my "local" mac user group members pointed out several options - an
> all of them involved installing software (free and $$). I was (am)
> amazed - isn't this sort of thing a basic need?

Astoundingly, ex-unix nerds are not apple's primary demographic. :-)

> Ah - and turning off autoraise is the second thing I always do on linux
> boxes (after setting the focus-follows-mouse). I like to have my IDL
> display windows always be on top while I type commands into the IDL
> command line. When I need big displays and screen real estate is an
> issue, focus-follows mouse + no-autoraise lets me have a large window
> and a couple of visible lines of a terminal peeking out the bottom for
> IDL command entry.

try the IDL command "wshow". This raises the plot window, but focus
remains on the IDL session. At least, it works for me on my MBP, running
IDL through emacs.

>> Incidentally, you CAN get this feature with Terminal.app (and only
>> terminal, sadly): defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse
>
> Well, actually, for now that is a *huge* help. Thanks very much for the tip.

No worries. I don't use Terminal.app, but i just tested -- you get the
desired behavious *without* autoraise! So apparently it's possible in the
OSX WM. Now if apple would just make that a system preference along with
highlight-copy....

cheers
chris

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[Message index]

		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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