On 08 Mar 2017, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
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>> >> - RandomPlacement.  I'll bet there are old twm-heads [...]
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> I certainly don't have any intention of removing the possibility.

Great. I can add another option to my rc if need be.

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> But I think most people fall the other way, and new users would fall
> _hard_ the other way, so it winds up being boilerplate in config.

We get people being surprised? Huh.

>> > (And you /can/ do stuff, like type into the previously focused
>> > window even if you can't see that happening,
>
> That's...   really kinda weird.  I'd almost be tempted to say it's
> strictly a bug.

It's an important feature! (-: I am concentrating on one thing, typing
away, then I'm supposed to stop mid-thought because some other
application finally got around to doing something? At least the way
things are now I can finish the thought before switching my attention
rather than trying to reconstruct it after being interrupted. If that
other application isn't prompting me to activate the defense shield
because the missiles are incoming then it can wait, otherwise it's as
egocentric as the focus-stealers.

> Fortunately, you don't have to worry about my fixing
> it.

Excellent. (-: It still surprises me how, considering how early it is,
how very much even plain old twm gets right for me with a rather vanilla
rc file. It has been nice for me that ctwm inherited much of that.

-- Mark

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