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Re: Focus moves with mouse?

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:10
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In <1k77foINNrr4@chnews.intel.com> sstrazdu@vulcan.intel.com (Stephen Strazdus) writes:
]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.
...
]I think IBM should incorporate this feature.  If they don't, MS will
]probably put it in NT and act like they invented it.

Well hardly invented- It's standard on Sunview, the old Sun windowing 
system
Does anybody know, can the "foreground" be seperated from the "focus"
under OS2 WPS or are they linked in the guts of OS2?
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From: unruh@unixg.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
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Subject: Re: Focus moves with mouse?
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:10:45 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
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Keywords: mouse, focus, foreground, background