From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 30 04:11:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA12474 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 04:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA12464 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 04:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id NAA05940; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:10:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:10:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199708301110.NAA05940@bitbox.follo.net> From: Eivind Eklund To: The Classiest Man Alive CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: The Classiest Man Alive's message of Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:32:51 -0400 Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! References: <19970828174348.17499@lemis.com> <199708251245.WAA23142@oznet11.ozemail.com.au> <19970825204932.12036@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <34020362.7DB1@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970825224258.55928@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <19970826083051.FR52594@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970826235525.22143@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <19970827093336.NX00626@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970828002532.43939@grendel.IAEhv.nl> <19970828083703.OY21311@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970828174348.17499@lemis.com> <3.0.3.32.19970830013251.009e6dc0@cybercom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > At 10:05 PM 8/29/97 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Talking about desktops: I have a very personal desktop with NT, > > > that looks totally different from what everybody else uses at the > > > office. > > > >Ooh, I'm impressed. Now set it up to use a focus-follows-pointer, don't > >top on focus model. Right. You can't. Bill likes click-to-focus, > >focus-window-on-top, so that is obviously *the right way.* You can move > >the "start" menu -- big deal. Mine just pops up when I click MB3, so > >it's always where I need it, and out of my face when I don't need it. > >The MS Windows "desktop manager" sucks, no two ways about it. > > Actually, W.P., this is possible in both NT and 95 with a utility called > X-Mouse. Oh? When did this start working in NT? I haven't checked the last three or four months (I was finally able to switch jobs and chuck out NT in favor of pure FreeBSD[1]), but before that I checked _often_ (I hate click to front). Win95 only, even after flaming. [1] I miss only one thing - Eudora. For handling personal mail Eudora is wonderful - for mailing-lists, I prefer Gnus. Eivind.