home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 00:50 BST-1
- From: hoagy@cix.compulink.co.uk (David Stevenson)
- Subject: Auto topping of windows
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.729340@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- >This sort of thing is really the domain of the window manager, and should
- >be selectable by the user. On workstations I much prefer to have mouse
- >focus (window under mouse gets key events, topped or otherwise), but on the
- >Falcon I'm kind of used to having to top a window.
- I find this behaviour (of Motif, for example) a pain in the arse. As a
- part-time Unix techy support person, I have to cope with people who have
- done damage by typing into the wrong window just because they happened
- to jog the mouse (and thus put it over another window). At least its
- CONFIGURABLE though, so I have disabled auto-topping, and have convinced
- a number of other people to do likewise.
-
-