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Article #16136Re: Focus moves with mouse?
From: Meir I Green
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:28
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:28
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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
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!news.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!mig 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 Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) Organization: Columbia University, New York References: <unruh.727982140@unixg.ubc.ca> <81774@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:28:53 GMT Lines: 43