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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:32:51 -0400
From:      The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATT Unix for Windows !
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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.  (I guess you know why it's so named.)  And there are utilities
that let you pop up the Start menu contents by clicking anywhere on the
open desktop or the taskbar tray.

K.S.



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