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From: karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: inputchange and 4.0
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Date: 28 Dec 90 23:46:33 GMT
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In article <7037@uceng.UC.EDU>, trohling@uceng.UC.EDU (tom rohling) writes:
|>    With all the buzz about 4.0 and X and the dissappearence of NeWS, I
|> have only one hope:  I have become *very* accustomed to just moving my
|> mouse to change which window I'm typing in,  where my experience with
|> Motif has (on the RS6000's) been that you have to pop that window before
|> you can type in it.

The click-to-type vs. having the focus follow the pointer is up to
the window manager you are using. In 4Dwm (as in mwm) this is
configurable by placing the line

	*keyboardFocusPolicy: pointer

into your configuration file. I believe the default value for 4Dwm
is what you are accustomed to.

PK