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Re: address@hidden: mouse-autoselect-window needs a delay]
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Robert J. Chassell |
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Re: address@hidden: mouse-autoselect-window needs a delay] |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:30:18 +0000 (UTC) |
> WMs that support focus-follows-mouse together with
> raise-on-focus have a similar issue. ... deal with that issue
> by (a) having a delay, (b) requiring the mouse to be stationary,
> or (c) both,
> ... focus is less likely to be transferred when the user does
> not wish it. My current WM implements (a) with something like a
> 0.5s delay.
> Comments? Simon.
I have focus-follows-mouse together with raise-on-focus in my window
manager and mouse-autoselect-window in Emacs, with zero delay in both
cases, and have never had a problem. Indeed, I love the current
configuration. It is much easier and more efficent for me than any
alternative.
Recently I suffered an alternative: because of a lightning strike, I
had to run WindowMaker (on an old and and known-to-be-broken machine,
but less broken than the zapped machine). That instance of the window
manager (the only one I could run on that machine at first) did not
have raise-on-focus that I could find. It was terrible. I moved the
cursor much more.
(I don't know if a working WindowMaker lacks raise-on-focus; if it
lacks, as delivered, the window manager is broken. More likely, the
lack is a side effect of the old and broken machine.)
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Robert J. Chassell
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