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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51283 is a reply to message #51236]

Thu, 09 November 2006 08:33

Edd Edmondson
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Marshall Perrin <mperrin+news@serpens.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Oh I know that, but you then mix the windows that don't then follow
that behaviour with the ones that do, which in my opinion just gets
confusing. And so you go full-screen to keep the two sets of windows
separate, and once you do that you want to stop using quartzwm as it
doesn't give you enough of an environment to do any work in (there's
then no application launcher for example).

--
Edd

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