Sam Edge was recently quoted as saying... > > You wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:13:10 +0200: > > > oh how I miss the "focus > > follows mouse" function within windows, just to mention one > > At the expense of being somewhat off topic and sounding like a > Microsoft UI aficionado you can get this behaviour out of most > versions of Windows if you install Microsoft Tweak UI. (Some versions > need the XMouse powertoy instead - also from Microsoft.)
At the expense of sounding like a picky naysayer, XMouse never worked consistently similar to any other X wm's focus-follows-mouse behaviour that I ever used. And it will never work like Fvwm2 SloppyFocus, which I've become addicted to. :) As for rootless mode, I'd throw out some other caveats and recommendations: * I'm using a Win32 virtual pager. When XWin is active, even in rootless mode, the window covers up the page in the virtual display. (Yes I know why, and this is with JSPager, perhaps there are shape-aware virt pagers for Win32.) * I recommend running this mode with the X server set to run always-on-top. Right now I'm using a tool called Make Always On Top to make XWin.exe this way, perhaps I could suggest that XWin.exe include this ability as a command-line and/or icon-menu option. Right now I'm using Chris's patched binary, set sticky in my Win32 pager, and Always On Top via that tool. I've moved my fvwm root-window menus to be invoked via an added title button on all fvwm windows, and turned on the titlebar for one of my X sticky windows so that I can always access it. I then get myself into the habit of manually minimizing X apps when I need to use a large Win32 app. This is a bit of a minor inconvenience, but the always-on-top has the benefit of making my X icons, winlist and pager window always available. In the meantime, I've trimmed off two pages of my X virtual desktop, two pages off my Windows virtual desktop, and turned off the overhead caused by my X root-pattern switcher (FvwmBacker). I'm enjoying this desktop paradigm. ================================================================== Keith D. Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Federal Way, WA http://www.keithtyler.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ If Tyrrany and Oppresion come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison, U.S. President 1809-1817 ==================================================================
