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> I don't think it's too long before I can switch from one window to another by just looking at it and twitching my eye. Most X11 window managers support the o
by nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
> I don't think it's too long before I can switch from one window to another by just looking at it and twitching my eye.
Most X11 window managers support the option for Focus Follows Mouse, where simply hovering over a different window will make it the active window, and after a short delay, bring it to the front of the window stack if necessary. Just combine this with "Multi Pointer X" and a gaze tracking camera that acts as another mouse input, and you could have what you're looking for...
- Pistos2 16y agoI'm pretty sure I would want things to happen more or less only when I take some action with my hands (gaze AND click/keypress). Things opening, closing, raising, lowering, or otherwise flying around purely on the basis of my gaze would probably be disorienting, or there would be a lot of false positives. ("I don't WANT that window to raise!")
- nitrogen 16y agoWindows don't raise unless clicked. They only take keyboard focus when hovered. Of course, desktop environments like Gnome and KDE don't do this anymore by default, to accommodate the converts from Windows and MacOS. Edit: the focus-stealing prevention already built into window managers could be combined with the gaze tracking to allow you to type into one window while reading from another.