RE: [opendx-users] Window focus on Macs
Joel, soory for the delay, here is the answer: Q: Is there an option for no-click-to-focus for X11 applications? A: Yes there is a hidden option. From an xterm or terminal execute : defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true other informations are here: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html cheers! giulio -- From: Joel Richardson Reply To: opendx2-users@lists.berlios.de Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:38 PM To: opendx2-users@lists.berlios.de Subject: [opendx-users] Window focus on Macs I've been running OpenDX on my Mac and mostly everything is great. My one problem is having to first click on a window to make it active, before doing whatever in that window. Since working with OpenDX usually requires frequent switching between windows (control panels, dialog boxes, image windows, etc.) all those extra clicks add up to a real pain. Even worse, focus automatically switches to the image window on every execution, so activities like stepping through values in a control panel becomes a truly frustrating experience. On my Sun box, this is not an issue, because I have it configured to give focus to whichever window the mouse is over. I cannot find a way to do this on a Mac. (I'm running OS X 10.3.6, using Apple's X11 v.1.0 - based on XFree86 4.3.) Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way around it? Thanks! Joel ___ Electronic mail messages entering and leaving Arup business systems are scanned for acceptability of content and viruses.
Re: [opendx-users] Window focus on Macs
David, That works perfectly. Thank you so much! Joel David Thompson wrote: Joel, This is the function of the quartz-wm Window manager. It is a pain especially for dx. I've changed my focus policy within the window manager so that it focuses on the window that the mouse is over immediately. It solves the problem you talk about with the ImageWindow always gaining focus. To do that, you need to add the key wm_ffm as true to the com.apple.x11.plist file in your ~/Library/Preferences file. I've read that it can be set using: in terminal defaults write com.apple.x11 xm_ffm true then to delete the behavior if you don't like it, defaults write com.apple.x11 delete wm_ffm I didn't have any luck with this, so I editted the file by hand and added it. Of course you will need to restart X11 whenever you change this file. David I've been running OpenDX on my Mac and mostly everything is great. My one problem is having to first click on a window to make it active, before doing whatever in that window. Since working with OpenDX usually requires frequent switching between windows (control panels, dialog boxes, image windows, etc.) all those extra clicks add up to a real pain. Even worse, focus automatically switches to the image window on every execution, so activities like stepping through values in a control panel becomes a truly frustrating experience. On my Sun box, this is not an issue, because I have it configured to give focus to whichever window the mouse is over. I cannot find a way to do this on a Mac. (I'm running OS X 10.3.6, using Apple's X11 v.1.0 - based on XFree86 4.3.) Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way around it? Thanks! Joel -- === Joel Richardson, Ph.D. Phone: (207) 288-6435 The Jackson Laboratory Fax: (207) 288-6132 600 Main Street URL: www.informatics.jax.org Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 ===
[opendx-users] Window focus on Macs
I've been running OpenDX on my Mac and mostly everything is great. My one problem is having to first click on a window to make it active, before doing whatever in that window. Since working with OpenDX usually requires frequent switching between windows (control panels, dialog boxes, image windows, etc.) all those extra clicks add up to a real pain. Even worse, focus automatically switches to the image window on every execution, so activities like stepping through values in a control panel becomes a truly frustrating experience. On my Sun box, this is not an issue, because I have it configured to give focus to whichever window the mouse is over. I cannot find a way to do this on a Mac. (I'm running OS X 10.3.6, using Apple's X11 v.1.0 - based on XFree86 4.3.) Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way around it? Thanks! Joel
Re: [opendx-users] Window focus on Macs
I just looked and discovered I'm still using X11 Beta 3 - XFree86 4.2.1. This is on Jaguar 10.2.8 at this location (I have 10.3.5 at another, not sure which X11 there, probably the one that either came installed(?) from the factory or it would have been downloaded after late June 04). I don't have the focus answer, but I thankfully don't have Image auto-raising either! I can have an Image next to or even partially covered by a Control Panel, in Execute on change, merrily banging away on the controls and watching the image update without it popping up. Personally, I don't usually care for auto-raise/auto-focus, so I haven't looked for the answer but I'd experiment with that mode if someone tells me how. On Friday, Dec 17, 2004, at 10:38 America/New_York, Joel Richardson wrote: I've been running OpenDX on my Mac and mostly everything is great. My one problem is having to first click on a window to make it active, before doing whatever in that window. Since working with OpenDX usually requires frequent switching between windows (control panels, dialog boxes, image windows, etc.) all those extra clicks add up to a real pain. Even worse, focus automatically switches to the image window on every execution, so activities like stepping through values in a control panel becomes a truly frustrating experience. On my Sun box, this is not an issue, because I have it configured to give focus to whichever window the mouse is over. I cannot find a way to do this on a Mac. (I'm running OS X 10.3.6, using Apple's X11 v.1.0 - based on XFree86 4.3.) Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way around it? Thanks! Joel ___ Chris Pelkie Scientific Visualization Producer 622 Rhodes Hall, Cornell Theory Center Ithaca, NY 14853
Re: [opendx-users] Window focus on Macs
Joel, This is the function of the quartz-wm Window manager. It is a pain especially for dx. I've changed my focus policy within the window manager so that it focuses on the window that the mouse is over immediately. It solves the problem you talk about with the ImageWindow always gaining focus. To do that, you need to add the key wm_ffm as true to the com.apple.x11.plist file in your ~/Library/Preferences file. I've read that it can be set using: in terminal defaults write com.apple.x11 xm_ffm true then to delete the behavior if you don't like it, defaults write com.apple.x11 delete wm_ffm I didn't have any luck with this, so I editted the file by hand and added it. Of course you will need to restart X11 whenever you change this file. David I've been running OpenDX on my Mac and mostly everything is great. My one problem is having to first click on a window to make it active, before doing whatever in that window. Since working with OpenDX usually requires frequent switching between windows (control panels, dialog boxes, image windows, etc.) all those extra clicks add up to a real pain. Even worse, focus automatically switches to the image window on every execution, so activities like stepping through values in a control panel becomes a truly frustrating experience. On my Sun box, this is not an issue, because I have it configured to give focus to whichever window the mouse is over. I cannot find a way to do this on a Mac. (I'm running OS X 10.3.6, using Apple's X11 v.1.0 - based on XFree86 4.3.) Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way around it? Thanks! Joel -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
