I hope using "chat" somewhat excuses my posting to J-ers, but perhaps some of you have some helpful ideas. I suspect posting in a more public forum would be unproductive.
I upgraded to Windows 10 a week or so ago. While I've solved one perennial problem in a new way, I've just encountered a new problem which is annoying me. For many years I've been using alt-tab to switch between running applications, such as J's editor and J's terminal. In recent Windows, alt-tab reveals thumbnails or a bit larger of all such apps, _including_ desktop, and you can scroll to the one you want, including desktop. I frequently use(d) the swap to desktop in order to invoke a non-active application whose icon appears on the desktop. Now, in W/10, the desktop is _not_ shown, so it is no longer simple to swap to the desktop. I seem to be able to do so only by minimising all half-dozen (typically) active apps. Hard to explain concisely - try it yourself if you have Windows 10 to see what I mean. Any ideas how to get round this? Windows 10 is quite nice on the whole, so I'm loth to return to 8.1 . I've got a little tip to offer in return: fortunately I've eventually managed to kill the annoying default behaviour where mouse-hover almost immediately fires anything that happened to underlie it, when using the laptop's touch-pad. In previous versions of Windows, I'd stopped this by setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse/MouseHoverTime to a large number; this time it seems necessary to disable both Control Panel/Touchpad/One-Finger options. Thanks for any suggestions; perhaps someone will find my mouse/touchpad tip useful. Apologies again for using "chat" - better than "beta"! Mike --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
