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Re: [vile] focusFollowsMouse with winvile?


From: Gary Jennejohn
Subject: Re: [vile] focusFollowsMouse with winvile?
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:00:32 +0200

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:27:55 -0500
"J. Chris Coppick" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10/22/2010 12:23 PM, Chris G wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 05:49:53PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:24:53 +0100
> >> Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:45:21AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >>>> I'm working on a project where I'm forced to use Miscrosoft Windows, so
> >>>> of course I'm using winvile.
> >>>>
> >>>> My question - is there any way to get something like the
> >>>> XVile.focusFollowsMouse behavior?  I use that all the time and keep
> >>>> forgetting to click the mouse to change focus, which results in botched
> >>>> editing sessions.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You can get "focus follows mouse" in windows as a whole easily enough.
> >>> Just install TweakUI which is part of Microsoft Power Toys for XP and
> >>> you can (among several other things) set "focus follows mouse".
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm running Vista, not XP.
> >>
> > I think there's TweakUI for Vista as well.
> > 
> >> I'm also referencing giving focus to a buffer when you have a split
> >> winvile window showing two buffers and you move the mouse over one of
> >> them.  That works under X11, but not with winvile.
> >>
> >> That's something different from moving the mouse over a window being
> >> managed by Windows.  Focus follows mouse seems to be standard with
> >> Vista.
> >>
> > I sort of realised that but thought I would mention TweakUI anyway.
> > 
> 
> Let me google that for you...  :-)
> 
> http://duane.thecoderblogs.com/2008/12/12/focus-follows-mouse-vista/
> 

That's auto-raise, but also very useful!  In X11 that's handled by the
window manager.  I've been wondering how to get that to work in Vista.
Thanks.

--
Gary Jennejohn



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