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Because of the short delay between waking the Mac and the display lighting up, I always either use spacebar or command key, or click the trackpad/mouse a couple

Because of the short delay between waking the Mac and the display lighting up, I always either use spacebar or command key, or click the trackpad/mouse a couple times to wake. Return is a dangerous key!

jmull 9y ago
I hit the shift key
- j_s 9y ago
  I used to hit the Shift key to manually triple-verify keeping my laptop 'alive' during long videos/presentations but have since switched to the Ctrl key. Thanks Sticky keys!
- TomK32 9y ago
  I'm a ctrl freak :D
- tracker1 9y ago
  Same here.. modifier keys are the safest to use.
lostlogin 9y ago
Hell yes. I wonder wha’s the worst thing someone has done with this? When you hit return and just before the keystroke a pop up comes up and you agree to something you didn’t want. I’ve see a couple of bad ones in the radiology world.
- notheguyouthink 9y ago
  Oh god, popups while you're typing are the worst. I feel like the OS should not even allow it. No idea how to prevent the issue, but I've been caught mid sentence before and accepted installs, upgrades, random popups, etc. Ones from Skype tend to be the most infuriating / scary..
  - Arnt 9y ago
    It's not too difficult. a) only the application with keyboard focus gets to open new windows with keyboard focus less than about two seconds after a keystroke (with no intervening mouse activity). b) no keyboard input into a new window for the first second, unless the user clicks there. We looked into this while I was Trolltech. Decided against doing it for Qt unilaterally, it's really something the system must do, or else it's too annoying.
    - lostlogin 9y ago
      But what about pop ups that come from within the application? Anything that has dialogues come up when there is a chance the user might be using enter/return for a different purpose is a bit crap, especially with multi-screen systems where there is a fair chance the user is looking elsewhere. Even just having no pre-selected default would help (so arrow - enter/return would be needed).
      - linkregister 9y ago
        This seems like something that should be handled by the application's developer. A different application's popup or focus steal should be managed by the window manager / OS.
      - Arnt 9y ago
        Is this an example of what you have in mind: The user is typing at Microsoft Word, and it's not a keyboard shortcut to open the "document properties" window, and Microsoft Word chooses to open another window during the typing and divert keyboard focus there?
        lostlogin 9y ago
        I think so, yes. Diverting keyboard focus in the middle of anything should never happen. Should there any exception to this?
  - lostlogin 9y ago
- linkregister 9y ago
  Yes, stealing focus by another application should not be permitted by the window manager / OS. Windows XP had a feature or a 3rd party plugin that would simply blink the application in the task bar if it attempted to steal focus. I also seem to remember a similar feature in Gnome 2, though it could be a false memory.
  - lostlogin 9y ago
    I remember this (I think). The worst offenders that come to mind for me are applications themselves, not other programs or the OS. Edit: a possible exception being the “please enter your iCloud password” curse I somehow cast on myself sometimes.

jmull 9y ago

I hit the shift key

j_s 9y ago
I used to hit the Shift key to manually triple-verify keeping my laptop 'alive' during long videos/presentations but have since switched to the Ctrl key. Thanks Sticky keys!
TomK32 9y ago
I'm a ctrl freak :D
tracker1 9y ago
Same here.. modifier keys are the safest to use.

lostlogin 9y ago

Hell yes. I wonder wha’s the worst thing someone has done with this? When you hit return and just before the keystroke a pop up comes up and you agree to something you didn’t want. I’ve see a couple of bad ones in the radiology world.

notheguyouthink 9y ago
Oh god, popups while you're typing are the worst. I feel like the OS should not even allow it. No idea how to prevent the issue, but I've been caught mid sentence before and accepted installs, upgrades, random popups, etc. Ones from Skype tend to be the most infuriating / scary..
- Arnt 9y ago
  It's not too difficult. a) only the application with keyboard focus gets to open new windows with keyboard focus less than about two seconds after a keystroke (with no intervening mouse activity). b) no keyboard input into a new window for the first second, unless the user clicks there. We looked into this while I was Trolltech. Decided against doing it for Qt unilaterally, it's really something the system must do, or else it's too annoying.
  - lostlogin 9y ago
    But what about pop ups that come from within the application? Anything that has dialogues come up when there is a chance the user might be using enter/return for a different purpose is a bit crap, especially with multi-screen systems where there is a fair chance the user is looking elsewhere. Even just having no pre-selected default would help (so arrow - enter/return would be needed).
    - linkregister 9y ago
      This seems like something that should be handled by the application's developer. A different application's popup or focus steal should be managed by the window manager / OS.
    - Arnt 9y ago
      Is this an example of what you have in mind: The user is typing at Microsoft Word, and it's not a keyboard shortcut to open the "document properties" window, and Microsoft Word chooses to open another window during the typing and divert keyboard focus there?
      - lostlogin 9y ago
        I think so, yes. Diverting keyboard focus in the middle of anything should never happen. Should there any exception to this?
- lostlogin 9y ago
linkregister 9y ago
Yes, stealing focus by another application should not be permitted by the window manager / OS. Windows XP had a feature or a 3rd party plugin that would simply blink the application in the task bar if it attempted to steal focus. I also seem to remember a similar feature in Gnome 2, though it could be a false memory.
- lostlogin 9y ago
  I remember this (I think). The worst offenders that come to mind for me are applications themselves, not other programs or the OS. Edit: a possible exception being the “please enter your iCloud password” curse I somehow cast on myself sometimes.