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Article #16229Re: Focus moves with mouse?
From: Michael J. Saletnik
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:12
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:12
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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 -- 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!noc.near.net!ceylon!news.tufts.edu!news.tufts.edu!msaletni 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 Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 22:27:17 GMT