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This is totally awesome, however one of the biggest things for me since i've recently bought a mac and coming from linux is the focus follows mouse issue, which
by TamDenholm 15y ago
This is totally awesome, however one of the biggest things for me since i've recently bought a mac and coming from linux is the focus follows mouse issue, which i know has been attempted to get working but failed.
Other things i miss are basics like double clicking the title bar to maximise, right clicking to create a new file and a few other things i miss from linux.
- pooriaazimi 15y agoI don't understand what you mean by 'focus follows mouse issue'. Please explain more, maybe there's a solution to that (whatever that issue is!)
- joe_fishfish 15y agoOn Linux, whenever you hover the mouse over a window, that window has focus. On OS X, you have to click in that window in order for it to gain focus. Steve Yegge mentioned in a rant[0] a while back. [0] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-follows-mouse-debate.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/settling-osx-focus...
- losvedir 15y agoFor whatever reason, OS X does work that way for scrolling; while typing this comment I can point at and scroll the window behind this one. Not sure why typing doesn't behave the same, though.
- pooriaazimi 15y agoI see. I have to say I like OS X's behavior much much more. Directing key strokes to a window that my mouse just happens to point to would be very confusing (to me at least).
- rimantas 15y agoEven more: while holding command key you can click on background windows, or select text in them without them gaining focus.
- jroll 15y agoBeen a Mac user for years and did not know this. Thanks!
- dkarl 15y agoYou do have to enable this setting in Linux. By default, most Linux distributions behave like Windows and OSX, so folks like me who never used Unix workstations have no way of knowing they're missing out on what I consider one of the key advantages of the Linux desktop. I finally learned about it from Steve Yegge's blog post. Ironically, three years after falling in love with focus-follows-mouse because of Yegge's frustration with OSX, I joined a company that is all OSX on the desktop. Le sigh....
- Zash 15y agoIn focus follows mouse mode, moving the pointer onto a window gives it focus.
- pigs 15y agoI know OSX does a lot of things right, but focus follows mouse and copy-on-select/paste-on-middle-click are two things that I can't live without.
- gregwebs 15y agoYou can have both of these in iterm2. There are also copy-on-select plugins for browsers. Just got my Mac. I am trying to figure out how to efficiently run a Linux virtual machine.
- jzawodn 15y agoVirtualBox should serve you well.
- xaritas 15y agoTake a look at Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com http://vagrantup.com). It's a command line driver and library manager for VirtualBox VMs. It's integrated with Chef and Puppet if automated provisioning is your thing.
- gregwebs 15y agoI am. It is ridiculously slow. But I realized it is just a networking issue (hitting the host-only network from a browser on my Mac), so hopefully I can fix it. Edit: Figured it out, DNS issue: sudo apt-get remove libavahi-common3
- X-Istence 15y agoedit /etc/nsswitch to remove mdns from the list... that takes care of the issue and you can keep avahi for some of the other things it provides (such as automatic discovery of printers, and the likes).
- ams6110 15y agoThough neither mode is perfect in all situations, on balance I prefer focus-follows-mouse. I do NOT care for copy-on-select, I like copy to be an explicit action. That way I can select, copy, select, paste to replace. With copy-on-select, you have to select, paste, select, delete which is less natural for me.
- driverdan 15y agoHave you tried using shortcut keys instead of the mouse? I find the more I keep my hands on the keyboard the faster everything becomes.