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From article <4964@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, by ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff):
> [on automatic mouse cursor movement]
> The X windowing system has "warping" which will move the mouse cursor
> to the middle of the newly activated window.  I agree with the sun/apple
> people that this is VERY distracting (what? where did my mouse cursor
> go? oh! it's *way* over there!?!).  if you had a very small screen
> it might not be to distracting, but normally I will keep a bunch
> of windows closed down, then descide to open up all the windows to machine
> "mist".  if I left warping on (I have it turned off as much as possible)
> I would have to move the mouse all the way back over to the next icon
> to open it, then all the way back to open the next icon, etc.
> (i.e., I would have *LOTS* of wasted mouse movement).
> 
> --ritchey ruff	ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- tektronix!orstcs!ruffwork

This may be distracting but it is also very useful.  The way that I
use warping follows the following scenario.

I like to open windows to various machines (using X's network features), 
iconify them and line them up along one side of the screen.  Now, when
these windows are "opened" or de-iconified where they pop up lies nowhere
near where the icon sat.  I liked the old feature of X10 whereby a window
that requested it could warp the pointer to the window's open
location.  That meant I could pop open a window and immediately be able
to type into it.

I wish that the window manager would allow windows to be selectively
warped by a keystroke of some sort.  That would prevent the case of
wanting to open several windows and each annoying you by warping
the mouse halfway to china.

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