Re: Eliminating the xterm
Re: Eliminating the xterm
- Subject: Re: Eliminating the xterm
- From: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:26:27 -0800 (PST)
Just throwing in my two cents.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
What is not as it should be is that when I double-click the X11 icon in
/Applications/Utilities while X11 is already running, it starts a second
xterm and then a third and so on. This is unlike, let's say
Terminal.app, where starting the app opens a window, but double-clicking
it again does not open a second window, it only brings the app to the
foreground.
Ok, I see what you're saying. I can't say this bothers me, but to each
his own.
Few applications in OSX do anything but bring the application into focus
when opening the application itself; it is odd when this happens.
Also, I keep the x11 application in my dock. The "open a new xterm when
clicked" behavior is, for me, exceedingly frustrating. Further, I have never
seen an application in OSX be such that, when clicked in the dock, it opens
a copy of itself which goes somewhere else in the dock.
While the functionality itself vexes me, I'm sure I can get used to it; the
bigger issue, though, is that X11.app is now behaving in a manner
inconsistent with all other OSX applications.
I want something in my dock that I can click to open X11 if it is not open,
and to bring it to the foreground if it is...just like every other
application in the dock.
But this is just a minor inconsistency, less annoying than others
everybody seems to have got used to. For me the most annoying little
inconsistency is that when I open an xterm by typing "xterm" in a
Terminal window, the xterm window opens on top of everything and looks
like it had focus, but in reality it does not; one first needs to click
it. It often happens to me that I have already typed a line of text or
one or two commands before I notice that they went into the wrong
window...
I do find that very annoying, BTW.
As do I; Foregrounded out-of-focus applications confuse me.
But then, I would prefer that no window have the ability to steal focus
across applications, ever. I do not want Software Update to pop up and tell
me I have updates, I do not want a dialog box from Word to pop up while I am
browsing in Safari, etc. I type fast enough that many keystrokes are often
lost this way, and I just KNOW I'm going to be sad and angry when I end up
typing an important password into a random javascript popup.
--Adam
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