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From: Mark Warner on 9 Dec 2009 19:19 Cousin Stanley wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> John Corliss wrote: >>> >>> WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work >>> on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the >>> currently focused window. >> >> This is the default behavior on this desktop. Dunno offhand >> if it's distro-specific, DTE-specific, or Linux-specific. > > Debian 5.0 Lenny .... > > > KDE> Control Center> Desktop> Window Behavior > > [x] Focus Follows Mouse > > I think there is also a similar config > for other Linux window managers but I > don't remember any specifics .... Makes perfect sense, as my desktop is the Lenny-based MEPIS, which is KDE through and through. -- Mark Warner goin' mobile with Linux Mint Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Ike on 9 Dec 2009 19:53 XP There's no mouse utility installed, but on this machine the scroll wheel works on whatever window is under the cursor, regardless of focus. Honestly, I didn't know there was another way for a mouse to work. Perhaps it's some option in TweakUI or Glary? What did I do right? Ike
From: baynole2 on 9 Dec 2009 19:55 I tried it some time ago for quite a while; using XP SP3, it imparted a curious "inertia" to scrolls whereby they kept going long after I released the mouse button; this was worse than the nuisance it was intended to resolve. I uninstalled it.
From: jmv on 9 Dec 2009 22:46 "John Corliss" <q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:7IKdnVCQTvnMY4LWnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d(a)posted.ccountrynet... > Scrolls windows under the mouse without having to click first Okay, somebody please enlighten me. I downloaded this, tried it, and found no practical use for it. What advantage is there in being able to scroll a window without having to first click on it? If I already have the mouse pointer on top of the window, and want to scroll through it, it only takes a second to click on it. It's not like I have to expend extra time and effort to reach for the mouse and click on the button as my finger is already on it. > Enables the mouse wheel in applications that don't support > mouse wheels Now that part I can see a use for, although I personally don't have any programs like that.
From: John Corliss on 10 Dec 2009 01:39 Cousin Stanley wrote: >> John Corliss wrote: >>> WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work >>> on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the >>> currently focused window. >>> .... > >> This is the default behavior on this desktop. Dunno offhand >> if it's distro-specific, DTE-specific, or Linux-specific. > > Debian 5.0 Lenny .... > > > KDE > Control Center > Desktop > Window Behavior > > [x] Focus Follows Mouse > > I think there is also a similar config > for other Linux window managers but I > don't remember any specifics .... I may be wrong, but having the focus follow the mouse usually brings whatever window the cursor is over to the top. For instance, say that you have a couple of windows open and one window only partially conceals another (the bottom window is "peeking out" from under the top one). If the focus follows the mouse, then when you moved the cursor over the portion of the bottom window that shows, the whole window would come to the top and now the bottom window would be on the top, partially obscuring what was formerly the top window. That's not what WizMouse does. Instead, it allows you to scroll the bottom window without bringing it up to the top. I find this of use when say, comparing two windows and using the top window to obscure unwanted info in the lower window. MS's TweakUI has a setting that allows the focus to follow the mouse: Mouse X-Mouse (put check by) Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse) Personally, I don't like bringing windows automatically to the top like that. That's why I like this little utility (WizMouse) so much. -- John Corliss BS206. Using News Proxy, I block all Google Groups posts due to Googlespam, and all x-privat.org posts due to forgeries posted through that service. No ad, cd, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
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