[comp.sys.sgi] inputchange and 4.0

trohling@uceng.UC.EDU (tom rohling) (12/22/90)

   With all the buzz about 4.0 and X and the dissappearence of NeWS, I
have only one hope:  I have become *very* accustomed to just moving my
mouse to change which window I'm typing in,  where my experience with
Motif has (on the RS6000's) been that you have to pop that window before
you can type in it.  I find that very annoying and I hope that feature of
NeWS is not lost in its implementation on these machines.
   Just a comment.

Tom Rohling.

karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton) (12/29/90)

In article <7037@uceng.UC.EDU>, trohling@uceng.UC.EDU (tom rohling) writes:
|>    With all the buzz about 4.0 and X and the dissappearence of NeWS, I
|> have only one hope:  I have become *very* accustomed to just moving my
|> mouse to change which window I'm typing in,  where my experience with
|> Motif has (on the RS6000's) been that you have to pop that window before
|> you can type in it.

The click-to-type vs. having the focus follow the pointer is up to
the window manager you are using. In 4Dwm (as in mwm) this is
configurable by placing the line

	*keyboardFocusPolicy: pointer

into your configuration file. I believe the default value for 4Dwm
is what you are accustomed to.

PK