Phil Shapiro wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:53 pm, Rich Cook wrote:
>
>> On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Stephen Langer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Rich Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suggest you compile the X11 version of Lyx and run that under
>>>> X11. Then you will get the desired behavior.
>>>> There is no "focus follows mouse" for non-X11 apps.
>>>
>>> You can turn it on for Terminal, with
>>> defaults write com.apple.Terminal AutoFocus -bool True
>>> (I think). Then you get focus-follows-mouse between X11 apps and
>>> Terminal, or between Terminal windows. Focus-follows-mouse doesn't
>>> work for arbitrary Aqua apps because then there'd be no way to move
>>> the mouse to the menu bar without accidentally switching apps.
>>>
>>
>> I don't follow you. So what if you switch apps, that's the idea of
>> "focus follows mouse," right? I don't see that being a show-stopper
>> for Aqua. I think Apple has just as usual decided we "don't need that
>> feature." That's the downside of Apple.
>
> OS X doesn't have built in support for focus follows mouse, but there
> are some third party utilities that add this:
>
> <http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/>
>
> <http://www.codetek.com/ctvd/>
Unfortunately work on this has been abandoned and it does not work properly on
Intel MACs if you run 10.4.5 or higher.
michael
>
> I haven't used either but they have been well reviewed.
>
> Regarding emacs vs xemacs, both emacs (GNU Emacs) and xemacs can run
> under X11. and there are also aqua native builds of both. XEmacs is a
> source fork off of GNU Emacs from while back. For more information see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xemacs#XEmacs_and_GNU_Emacs
>
>> I'm experiencing lots of "Apple doesn't think I need that" with my new
> iPhone too. :-|
>
> I'd be happy to take it off your hands & end your suffering... :)
>
> -phil
>
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