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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 06:51:06 -0700
From:      Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars
Message-ID:  <3700D6CA.A427640@thuntek.net>
References:  <Message from "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> <3.0.6.32.19990329102615.008f94a0@mail.bfm.org> <3.0.6.32.19990329203142.008fae20@mail.bfm.org> <370073E5.8A887571@uk.radan.com>

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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> "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).
> 
and fvwm can be configured with a one-line change to be ClickToFocus.
I've always thought it to be 'low-resource', but then I never build an X
machine with less than 32M...
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