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- From: sstrazdu@vulcan.intel.com (Stephen Strazdus)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Focus moves with mouse?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:56:40 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- Lines: 37
- Message-ID: <1k77foINNrr4@chnews.intel.com>
- References: <unruh.727982140@unixg.ubc.ca> <1993Jan25.222717.20871@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Keywords: mouse, focus, foreground, background
-
- In article <1993Jan25.222717.20871@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu 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 tht foreground background is not tied to the focus
- >>ie to transfer to foreground you have to click on the boarder ratehr than just
- >>anywhere. At present focus and foreground are tied together, and that is not
- >>always convenient.
- >
- >Try getting the file xfeel.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- >ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check file /pub/os2/00Index for location). This
- >utility will give you the focus follows mouse behavior.
-
- While xfeel does make the focus move with the mouse, it is not what many
- people, including me, are asking for. With xfeel, the focus moves with
- the mouse *and* the window rises to the top of the stack. What I would
- prefer is a way to have the focus move with the mouse, but not rise to the
- top. This way you can type in a window which is partially obscured by another
- window.
-
- Why would you want to do that? Well, because there is something in
- another window that you would like to see while typing, and you don't
- have a gigapixel display. Or maybe your display is slow, and you really
- don't wan't to watch the screen redraw everytime you move between
- windows.
-
- This seems to be one of those features that everyone thinks is useless
- until they actually use it for a while, then they can't stand being
- without it. Very analagous to all the "Who needs multitasking?"
- arguments.
-
- I think IBM should incorporate this feature. If they don't, MS will
- probably put it in NT and act like they invented it.
-
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- Steve Strazdus sstrazdu@sedona.intel.com
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