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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Focus moves with mouse?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.012853.13977@news.columbia.edu>
- Keywords: mouse, focus, foreground, background
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- Organization: Columbia University, New York
- References: <unruh.727982140@unixg.ubc.ca> <81774@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:28:53 GMT
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- Even better (I hope the author of xfeel is listening!) how about click fore/
- background as an option. Configurable for which mouse button does what, this
- would be a good workaround for the UI problem where WPS dragging causes the
- window of the dragged object to come to foreground. If one could click the
- left or middle (wishful thinking :-( ) button while dragging with right, and
- have the window move back to the background, this would make a good workaround.
-
- Whew!
- Meir
-
- In article <81774@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:
- >In article <unruh.727982140@unixg.ubc.ca> unruh@unixg.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes:
- >>Is it possible to set OS2 up so that the focus moves with the mouse, rather
- >>than the focus transfereing with a mouse click on the window (I know in
- >>X it is an option). Also that foreground background is not tied to the focus
- >>ie to transfer to foreground you have to click on the boarder rather than just
- >>anywhere. At present focus and foreground are tied together, and that is not
- >>always convenient.
- >>Bill Unruh
- >>unruh@physics.ubc.ca
- >
- >To answer your first question, you can get the 'xfeel' util from
- >ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. This causes focus (and foreground) to follow the
- >mouse.
- >
- >As for separating forground and focus, I don't know.
- >Would it be possible to have a named pipe for the input to a program,
- >and then have an xfeel like program send all keyboard input to the
- >window which has the mouse pointer over it?
- >
- >Ken.
- >
- >--
- >M. Ken McGaugh
- >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
- >uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1610c
- >Internet: gt1610c@prism.gatech.edu
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