raise window on-click
Iain Buchanan
iain at pcorp.com.au
Tue Nov 25 07:13:48 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:03, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Rob Park wrote:
> >
> > Ugh, this drives me nuts. I use focus-follows-mouse because I like being
> > able to type into whatever window I'm pointing at, WITHOUT having to
> > click it.
> ...
> > BUT, sometimes I DO want to
> > raise the window, and it's *so* much easier to be able to click anywhere
> > than to be restricted to the title bar.
>
> Alt + Mouse 1
>
> Problem solved.
Thank you very much!! I didn't know about this. Thats slightly better.
[snip]
> > There's nothing I hate more than writing an
> > email, and having some error dialog box pop up, but disappear too
> > quickly to read because I was typing, it stole my focus, and I pressed
> > the space bar, which selected the default action. That dialog box,
> > whatever it was, just did something that I might not have wanted it to
> > do, and it might be irreversible, and I might never know what it was.
>
> I agree that this is a serious problem. I don't know if it's the window
> manager's fault though. It might be fixed by never assigning key
> shortcuts to buttons in "alert" style dialog boxes (that is, ones that
> open without the user specifically requesting them to open, from a menu
> or such) or at the very least, delaying the binding of a key to the
> default button for several seconds.
What do you think of the strict focus idea?
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Iain Buchanan <iain at pcorp.nospam.com.au>
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