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Greybeards who still used SunOS because they didn't like the Mac/Windows way of doing things. It enables things like: 1. Found a web tutorial on how to do som

Greybeards who still used SunOS because they didn't like the Mac/Windows way of doing things. It enables things like: 1. Found a web tutorial on how to do something in *nix with a bunch of shell commands interspersed between paragraphs? Keep a small terminal open in a corner on top of the fullscreen browser, read the article and actually click-and-select commands and then copy-paste in the terminal by just moving your mouse back and forth between the applications. 2. Looking at a scanned PDF and want to do a bit of math to confirm the numbers you're reading? Load up a calculator and type into it when the mouse is hovering over, go back to scroll the PDF. Easy peasy. Basically by separating the actions of window positioning from using it, you can actually use more than just fullscreen windows one at a time.

myrion 9y ago
2 works in Windows, xfce and Unity too, mostly (and has been for years). The focus stays on the calculator if you wanna type into it, but you can still scroll whatever your mouse is over. 1 certainly works in any Linux DE I've ever used, as long as I make the terminal stay in the foreground whether it's focused or not. Personally, I prefer to use guake for sucha usecase, however.
- ISV_Damocles 9y ago
  Those were examples. The key point is that this is generic behavior for any window at any time. It doesn't have to be special-cased (with the calculator) and it happens all the time (making the terminal stay in the foreground is at least two clicks, for instance).
  - marcoperaza 9y ago
    That's not special cased for calculator. Scrolling goes to the window that the mouse is hovering over. Your point in general still stands.
- swift 9y ago
  2 works on macOS too, for what it’s worth. (My memory of this, which may not be entirely reliable, is that Linux and OS X both had 2 forever. I wish I could say the same for 1.)

myrion 9y ago

2 works in Windows, xfce and Unity too, mostly (and has been for years). The focus stays on the calculator if you wanna type into it, but you can still scroll whatever your mouse is over. 1 certainly works in any Linux DE I've ever used, as long as I make the terminal stay in the foreground whether it's focused or not. Personally, I prefer to use guake for sucha usecase, however.

ISV_Damocles 9y ago
Those were examples. The key point is that this is generic behavior for any window at any time. It doesn't have to be special-cased (with the calculator) and it happens all the time (making the terminal stay in the foreground is at least two clicks, for instance).
- marcoperaza 9y ago
  That's not special cased for calculator. Scrolling goes to the window that the mouse is hovering over. Your point in general still stands.
swift 9y ago
2 works on macOS too, for what it’s worth. (My memory of this, which may not be entirely reliable, is that Linux and OS X both had 2 forever. I wish I could say the same for 1.)