From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7cb7f43db4b375a9ee3fd6731d4b2d8d@mightycheese.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] focus follows mouse From: "rob pike, esq." In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:02:20 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0c43524-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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