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Re: Eliminating the xterm
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Re: Eliminating the xterm


  • Subject: Re: Eliminating the xterm
  • From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:28:14 -0500

On 13/11/2007, Adam D. I. Kramer <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. I would say that focus stealing is outright dangerous on a Unix
system. Oftentimes a message pops up and disappears because I was
in the middle of typing something, and I would have no idea what the
message was and what action was taken. This mess could have been
avoided if OSX's GUI were X11-based. Alas =P

--
cheers,
-ambrose

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References: 
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Jack Howarth <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>)

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