Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:45:44 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

 
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.
 

I don't use Winblows a lot but, AFAIK, the focus-follows-mouse will also
raise the window in focus.  For me this is very unacceptable.

With my GNU/Linux window manager, I can configure that the focus granted
will also not raise the window, and this will greatly facilitate copy/paste
operations.

To be clear, there are two issues here:

1) Granting focus to the chosen window

2) Mandating whether or not the window that is granted focus will be raised
or not.

In GNU/Linux (at least in my custom build) I can configure my GUI to
do any combination.
 

>
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.
>

Well that is a whole other story.  Most people who use Winblows are
digitally illiterate but the fact that Winblows is designed to accomodate
them attests to its shortcomings.





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