Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!ux!mtymp01 From: mtymp01@ux.acs.umn.edu (Nils H. McCarthy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 02:37:42 GMT References: <1990Oct29.195413.7784@phri.nyu.edu> <1054@mdavcr.UUCP> <1990Oct30.165433.28495@phri.nyu.edu> <15882@netcom.UUCP> <1990Oct31.035942.2412@cs.umn.edu> Sender: news@ux.acs.umn.edu Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware Organization: Gnu's not un*x Lines: 38 In-reply-to: aslakson@cs.umn.edu's message of 31 Oct 90 03:59:42 GMT In article <1990Oct31.035942.2412@cs.umn.edu> aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes: 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). Okay.. if any of you you people out there want to know how to do this, 1) get TWM or VTWM 2) add this line in your .twmrc file: Button1 = : title|frame : f.focus 3) when you start up x windows, click on one window to begin with. (this assumes you want to use button 1, the left one. If you wish to use a different one, just change Button1 to Button2 or Button3.) -- -- Nils_McCarthy mtymp01@ux.acs.umn.edu rutgers!umn-cs!ux.acs.umn.edu!mtymp01 "The wonders of modern technology..." :-) :-) :-)