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Re: Focus moves with mouse?

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From: Michael Kenneth McGaugh
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:52
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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
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From: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh)
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Subject: Re: Focus moves with mouse?
Keywords: mouse, focus, foreground, background
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Date: 25 Jan 93 21:52:18 GMT
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