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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
Keywords: Macintosh
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.035942.2412@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 03:59:42 GMT
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X-Please.notice: Please notice how nicely adjusted my paragraph is.

chas@netcom.UUCP (Chuck Fisher) writes:
>In article <...> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>>ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes:
>>The only thing that annoys me
>>about MF (and I'm not sure if it's just the way it is, or something imposed
>>by the non-VM environment) is that you have to click in a window to activate
>>it.  It takes me a little mental effort to shift gears from my suntools
>>environment to MF because of this.  Then again, I watch new people use the
>>Sun and not understand why, just because their elbow accidentally pushed the
>>mouse out of the window, their keyboard all of a sudden went dead.  Besides,
>>somebody who uses a Mac for all their work won't have the Sun style windows
>>to confuse them.
>SunView has a variable called "ClickToType" or something like that which
>makes a Sun act like the Mac does under MultiFinder.  That is, that you
>have to "click" in a window in order to make it "active."  

X windows has the same type option.  I have my X windows set up so that 
clicking once in a title bar (left button) makes that the active window
no matter where the mouse pointer is.  If I click in the same title bar
twice (in sucession) it goes back to the standard style where the mouse
pointer must be in the window for it to be active.  (Like most X-window
stuff, this was copied from someone else.  This trick came from mtymp01
(@ux.acs.umn.edu) AKA Nils McCarthy). 


Brian
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To be fair to myself, he copied my .plan....
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Brian Aslakson

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