Steven Langer wrote:
> I use CodeTek virtual desktop on a G5 running 10.3. It has a
> focus-follows-mouse feature that applies to normal OSX apps and X11
> windows. I tried that for a bit, but the normal Mac apps (aqua, carbon,
> cocoa, whatever) became hard to work with. By the time my mouse reached
> the Menu bar, the window I wanted to work with had almost always lost
> the focus.
There is a config option to control this. I never had this problem on my PB.
Too bad they stopped working on the app and it can't be used on Intel Macs.
michael
> I turned that feature off and edited the X11 plist file as
> described near the start of this thread to get focus-follows-mouse for
> X11 windows only.
>
> One of the messages commented that focus-follows-mouse didn't apply to
> emacs. That sounds like the user has installed one of the native OSX
> ports of emacs. aquamacs is an example and I have tried a couple of
> others over the years. Focus-follows-mouse works with the X11 based
> emacs I installed using Fink.
>
> When offered a choice between a native OSX app and an X11 port of the
> app, I decide by picking the one that is the same type as the other apps
> I want to use it with. For example, I use emacs to edit files I plan to
> read with X11 apps, so I use an X11 version of emacs.
>
> Steve Langer
> LLNL
> (NOTE: I am not the Stephen Langer at NIST who made some comments
> earlier in this thread. The name coincidence probably has some deep
> cosmic significance, but I am not sure what it might be!)
>
>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:53:37 -0700
>> From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: LyX under X11 behaviour
>> To: Stephen Langer <email@hidden>
>> Cc: email@hidden
>> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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>> 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. I'm experiencing lots
>> of "Apple doesn't think I need that" with my new iPhone too. :-|
>>
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