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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51152 is a reply to message #51151]

Wed, 08 November 2006 15:27

Paul Van Delst[1]
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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/

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?

> 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.

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.

> Incidentally, you CAN get this feature with Terminal.app (and only
> terminal, sadly):
> defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES

Well, actually, for now that is a *huge* help. Thanks very much for the tip.

paulv

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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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