Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-09, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:46:14 +0000, Borax Man wrote:
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I use Windows at work, and it isn't consistent.  The top title bar
differs from program to program, decorations are different depending on
whether I'm using Outlook, Adobe or Firefox.
 

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The most ridulous design flaw of M$ Winblows, which has existed from the
very beginning, is the inability to easily control how a window gains
focus.
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In M$ Winblows, a window gains focus only with a mouse click and this makes
copy/paste operations between windows extremely awkward and cumbersome.
For me, copy/paste operations between windows are critical and I do them
all the time.  On my GNU/Linux machine I have configured windows to gain
focus via the mouse pointer alone (no clicking is needed).  This allows
very smooth and efficient copy/paster operations.  However, that cannot
be done on that junk M$ Windows and consequently copy/paste is always a
big headache.
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I believe that there is some obscure registry setting in M$ Winblows that
enables focus via the mouse pointer alone but that setting will also lead
to undesirable side effects.
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With GNU/Linux I can configure my GUI to serve me the way I want to be served.
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With M$ Winblows it is one-size-fits-all and take-it-or-leave-it.
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Well guess what.  I left it.  Forever.
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I use focus follows mouse at home, and Windows at work.  I do believe I
had focus follows mouse at work as well on Windows.


https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-activate-window-by-hovering-over-with-mouse-pointer-in-windows-11.6104/

Seems it is still possible.

Most of my "copy and paste" issues have to do with not wanting to copy
formatting, or people putting images of extracts of Excel data in
documents, which I have to *type* into another document because I can't
copy and paste.  ITs how colleagues share data that is the issue, having
to alt-tab is in comparison, minor.  Clunky management of data is a far
bigger problem.