On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:03, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Rob Park wrote: > > > > Ugh, this drives me nuts. I use focus-follows-mouse because I like being > > able to type into whatever window I'm pointing at, WITHOUT having to > > click it. > ... > > BUT, sometimes I DO want to > > raise the window, and it's *so* much easier to be able to click anywhere > > than to be restricted to the title bar. > > Alt + Mouse 1 > > Problem solved. Thank you very much!! I didn't know about this. Thats slightly better. [snip] > > There's nothing I hate more than writing an > > email, and having some error dialog box pop up, but disappear too > > quickly to read because I was typing, it stole my focus, and I pressed > > the space bar, which selected the default action. That dialog box, > > whatever it was, just did something that I might not have wanted it to > > do, and it might be irreversible, and I might never know what it was. > > I agree that this is a serious problem. I don't know if it's the window > manager's fault though. It might be fixed by never assigning key > shortcuts to buttons in "alert" style dialog boxes (that is, ones that > open without the user specifically requesting them to open, from a menu > or such) or at the very least, delaying the binding of a key to the > default button for several seconds. What do you think of the strict focus idea? -- Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The number of computer scientists in a room is inversely proportional to the number of bugs in their code.
