Re: Automatic mouse cursor movement

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From: Ritchey Ruff
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 1988 20:35

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[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

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From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Automatic mouse cursor movement
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Date: 4 Jun 88 20:35:38 GMT
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