Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

Borax Man wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

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

I set that up once, on Windows. However, on Windows this feature raises
the window after too-short an interval. Thus, dragging the mouse across
a window to get to the window you want causes that first window to pop up.

Fluxbox uses a slight delay, so one can quickly move to the desired
windows before the other window pops up.

A small thing, of course.

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.

I aver.

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