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From: unobe@cpan.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] PATCH: click-to-focus in fgui
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 23:44:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D0282916FEB7AB4CCD565BEE2B5889C@smtp.pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210812163626.63c3fb64@gmx.de>

Quoth Eckard Brauer <eckard.brauer@gmx.de>:
> > > I guess I really want the focus following my eyes.  
> > 
> > no you really don't
> 
> I'd rather want focus to follow the mouse lazily as long as there's a
> possibility to switch/cycle windows with the keyboard. So I usually
> don't have an idea where the mouse pointer is left and do most of the
> work with the keyboard. Mouse is only used for selecting/pasting.
> 
> But that's not much approved (and maybe possible at all) on Plan 9.
> IMHO it'd be best to leave the user to choose, if it's with a path or
> compile time #ifdefs, it would be fine for me.

Has anyone played with having the mouse cursor always followed the
keyboard location, rather than the mouse always determining focus?

I'm trying to think of times when I really need to have the mouse stay
wherever it is on the screen while typing.  More often than not, I
have to move the mouse if it's over a couple letters that I need to
see and perhaps it would be easier to always know where it is (the
keyboard cursor when not being actively used).  I think that might
make it faster to write out something to run, copy, paste, etc.: most
of the interactions I used the mouse in conjunction with the keyboard
for.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-13  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-09 22:59 Silas McCroskey
2021-08-10 14:19 ` ori
2021-08-11  5:28   ` rgl
2021-08-11 20:49     ` Philip Silva
2021-08-11 21:09       ` Steve Simon
2021-08-11 22:37       ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2021-08-12  9:05         ` hiro
2021-08-12 14:36           ` Eckard Brauer
2021-08-13  6:44             ` unobe [this message]
2021-08-13  7:10               ` hiro
2021-08-14 10:20                 ` Eckard Brauer
2021-08-14 13:09                   ` qwx
2021-08-14 15:03                     ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-14 13:17                   ` José Miguel Sánchez García
2021-08-14 20:57                     ` Patch-keeping (Was Re: [9front] PATCH: click-to-focus in fgui) unobe
2021-08-14 15:04                   ` [9front] PATCH: click-to-focus in fgui Stuart Morrow
2021-08-14 18:08                   ` hiro
2021-08-14 21:43                     ` unobe
2021-08-15  6:47                       ` hiro
2021-08-14 21:46                   ` unobe
2021-08-15 13:36                     ` Eckard Brauer
2021-08-15 19:16                       ` hiro
2021-08-15 17:31                   ` kvik
2021-08-15 18:34                     ` Kurt H Maier
2021-08-15 18:48                     ` Stanley Lieber
2021-08-15 20:18                       ` Eckard Brauer
2021-08-15 22:35                         ` Stanley Lieber
2021-08-16  5:14                           ` Stanley Lieber
2021-08-16 15:46                             ` Skylar Bleed
2021-08-15 19:03                     ` hiro
2021-08-16 16:40                       ` kvik
2021-08-16 19:25                         ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-16 19:40                           ` Kurt H Maier
2021-08-17  2:05                             ` Stanley Lieber
2021-08-16 20:04                         ` hiro
2021-08-16 20:13                         ` hiro
2021-08-17  1:10                           ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2021-08-17  8:11                             ` hiro
2021-08-12  0:12       ` hiro
2021-08-15  4:29       ` ori
2021-08-16 19:40 ` ori

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