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I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.
by mouhtasi 11y ago
I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.
- endgame 11y agoAnd once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.
- eropple 11y ago> And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. Eh. I've used focus-follows-mouse and tend instead to strongly prefer the OS X method of allowing scroll events to percolate to the window under the cursor but retaining keyboard focus on the window it's currently in. This allows me to scroll, say, a web browser on my right-hand monitor, while continuing to type in the left.
- bubblesorting 11y agoFocus-follows-mouse doesn't work so great in OSX because of the global menubar, everywhere else it's great though!
- tehwalrus 11y agoHover-focus is great on tiling window managers, but I'm not sure I'd react well to it where windows overlap by design. Also, don't forget that OS X lets you scroll whatever window your mouse is over, even if it is "blurred" (not in focus). This is the one feature that I miss most whenever I need to use Windows.
- chimprich 11y agoThere's a couple of free Windows programs that compensate for this. http://superuser.com/questions/110700/making-a-mouse-scroll-work-in-non-active-windows http://superuser.com/questions/110700/making-a-mouse-scroll-...
- 7Z7 11y agoI, and many of the thousand or so Linux users at my company, disagree! The only people here who really seem to like it are the ones using drawing-tablets as their main input.
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