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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.004851.11526@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan23.233249.15201@news.columbia.edu> <1993Jan24.193522.10158@odin.diku.dk> <RUB.93Jan24173507@solarium.aero.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:48:51 GMT
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- In article <RUB.93Jan24173507@solarium.aero.org> rub@aero.org (Jerzy W. Rub) writes:
- >How about:
- >
- >10. An option (a switch) to allow making windows active WITHOUT bringing
- >them into focus (that is, without redrawing the entire window)? Often
- >seeing just a part of the active window is all I need.
-
- Yes! A csh/ksh style bg option for PM progs :-)
- Actually, it would be even better to unify the DOS and OS/2 background
- exectution option (ie some DOS settings are more flexible than OS2 program
- settings). How about a priority option which lets you set all the priorities
- to anything for any program...maybe from ^ESC or a pspm type thing.
-
- >11. A shutdown with just one prompt. I am looking for a way to avoid
- >getting prompts from all the running applications and telling each one that
- >yes, I want its window closed. Or perhaps there is a way to do this and I
- >should read manuals?
-
- Yes!
- A list of running programs and *one* prompt to kill all of them and shutdown.
- This is similar to a delete file-list type thing (Are you sure you want to
- delete: A,B,C,D,E,...?!).
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