From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] focus follows mouse
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:02:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cb7f43db4b375a9ee3fd6731d4b2d8d@mightycheese.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306291051210.788-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
> acme has 'focus follows mouse' turned on by default. you may want to check
> the archives for Rob Pike's reasons not to have it in Rio...
everyone in the lab used the window system and was used to its UI.
acme came later and was experimental; not only did it seem wrong to
retrofit, i would have created an angry group of people had i done so.
you can hack rio to do this, but you will have some hard questions to
answer because its UI isn't designed to work this way. it's a tricky
balance. when i'm marooned on linux the environment uses 'focus
follows mouse' and i dislike it because the surrounding UI doesn't
really work well with it - and it was designed to!
you can always disable the acme feature with the obscurely named
-b flag.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-29 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-29 16:40 D. Brownlee
2003-06-29 16:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-29 17:02 ` rob pike, esq. [this message]
2003-06-29 17:39 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-29 17:25 ` D. Brownlee
2003-06-29 17:41 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-29 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-29 20:24 markp
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