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- From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Focus moves with mouse?
- Message-ID: <MSALETNI.93Jan26101723@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:12:26 GMT
- References: <unruh.727982140@unixg.ubc.ca> <1993Jan25.222717.20871@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@news.tufts.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
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- In-Reply-To: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 22:27:17 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan25.222717.20871@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) 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
-
- >Try getting the file xfeel.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
-
- But ... although this allows focus to follow the mouse, it still
- requires that the window with focus be on top. What I (and I think
- Mr. Unruh) would like is the ability to have the window with focus
- remain beneath other windows.
-
- I know OS/2 can do this to some extent ... if I put TE/2 or QPRO/DOS
- partially under another window, and there's data coming in, it can
- deal quite happily with being partially obscured.
-
- Motif, as an X window manager, allows you to choose either
- click-to-focus, follow-mouse-focus, or
- follow-mouse-and-bring-to-top-focus. PM behaves as the first, 'xfeel'
- behaves as the last; I would like a way to do the middle. If IBM
- could build this option into PM, it would be great. If someone could
- implement it as an add-on, however, I'd still be happy.
-
- Michael
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- Michael J. Saletnik, Tufts University E'91 G'93
- michael@binkley.ext.tufts.edu msaletni@pearl.tufts.edu
- Manager of Computer Resources, Dept. of Civil Engineering
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