This doesn't work for me :(
I have mouseOverForKeyboardFocus enabled but I still need to click to focus.

Any ideas?

Philippe

P.S.:
I remember someone in the gentoo forums having a
sloppy focus owns you!
sig ;)

2006/7/14, Chris Muller <chris at funkyobjects.org>:
>
> mouseOverForKeyboardFocus took some getting used to, but I love it now.
>
>
> A real nice thing about it is you can close windows easily with
> Command+w, no tedious aiming for the small "x" in the corner.  Instead
> of having to precise gestures with the mouse I am able to do relatively
> imprecise gestures.
>
> This is very useful for coding.  For example, when you are typing a
> method, you aren't sure abbout a method name, you simply highlight the
> method argument (aSet) and Set pops up.  Find the method, copy it, then
> sloppily toss the pointer back to the text pane where you were typing
> just press and Command+w to close the Set browser currently on top.
>
> Everyone raves about e-Completion.  I still have it isntalled but
> rarely use it anymore because this method of spawning browsers and
> quickly closing them just works much better.
>
> You can also quickly "clean up" your desktop by just move the mouse to
> the bottom and Command+w, Command+w, Command+w.
>
> Overall, now that I'm used to it I find it very productive, and have
> other "standard" environments actually feeling quite cumbersome.  Call
> me weird..
>
>
> --- Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> > > Then there's Squeak's keyboard focus behavior when moving the mouse
> > > around, which is sort of a combination of Mac/Windows "click to
> > focus"
> > > and X11 "mouse over focus" behavior.  In Squeak, you have "click to
> > > focus" behavior between windows (you have to click on a window to
> > type
> > > in it), but between panes within a window, you have to mouse over
> > to
> > > that pane.  After using all three UIs over the years, I'd say
> > having a
> > > mix is probably the worst option... it might be worth converting
> > Squeak
> > > to just one or the other.  (I'd lean toward "click to focus".)  I'm
> > > guessing this behavior originated with Smalltalk-80.
> >
> >
> > This is something that really annoys me every day. If somebody has a
> > fix, I would greatly appreciate it. I would like the mouse position
> > not
> > to decide about what is focused. I click somewhere in a window and
> > then
> > I can throw my mouse cursor away and forget about it. Currently, I
> > often
> > loose the focus when I throw my mouse.
> >
> > Moreover, the option in the preference browser
> > 'mouseOverForKeyboardFocus' only works for windows, and not for pane.
> > If
> > I move the mouse between panes, the focus change even the option is
> > set
> > to false.
> >
> >
> > Bye
> >
> >
> >
>
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