From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 29 22:50:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42AF14C3B for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:50:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10RsLm-0007aS-0A; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 06:50:14 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA01907; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:49:46 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA01298; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:49:45 +0100 Message-ID: <370073E5.8A887571@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:49:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars References: <3.0.6.32.19990329102615.008f94a0@mail.bfm.org> <3.0.6.32.19990329203142.008fae20@mail.bfm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > Alas, there is no command listed that would prevent a window from losing > focus once the pointer leaves it. :-( > > I thought that NoTitleFocus might do that, but it did not. > > This is in accordance with what Unix Unleashed says: You need something > other than twm if you want to keep focus on a window when you move the > pointer out of it. > > So, for now, I should probably stick to using FreeBSD in console mode only. > I need more memory, I forget what started this discussion, but it sounds as though you are wanting a WM with low resource overhead abd which allows a window to retain focus when the mouse pointer leaves it. If this is the case why not try olvwm (Sun's OpenLook)? It uses single colour icons, has no task bar etc. and has a "ClickToType" resource setting that keeps focus on a window until you click in another (I personally use the traditional "focus follows mouse" method). HTH -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message