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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: How to make focus follow cursor
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.172917.6819@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:29:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.160504.19507@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1992Aug20.010609.24466@BofA.com>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
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- In article <1992Aug20.010609.24466@BofA.com> karl@BofA.com (Karl Nicholas) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.160504.19507@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
- >>have what I hope is a simple question. What
- >>do I need to do under Openlook(?) to have the
- >>window I place the cursor in pop to the top
- >>without having to click on the title bar?
- >
- > Try hitting the "front" key as you move the cursor
- >around. Probably not exactly what you want, but I think
- >you will like it.
-
- Or you can use the AutoRaise X resource for olwm.
-
- OpenWindows.AutoRaise: True
-
- will pop to the top any window you move the focus to (you should also set the
- resource OpenWindows.SetInput to "followmouse").
-
- Be aware that this can sometimes affect you in ways you don't expect, and if
- you have overlapping windows, slight mouse motions can suddenly bring another
- window to the top because you went over the edge. "twm" allows you to specify
- which applications should be autoraised; olwm does not. However it does have
- another resourse, AutoRaiseDelay, which you should be able to use to alleviate
- this a bit.
-
- There is also another resource called RaiseOnActivate, which raises the window
- as soon as you start to type into it. That might be a good compromise.
- --
- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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