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?
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iain at pcorp.nospam.com.au>

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