[581] in Athena User Interface
Re: No focus for newly-launched apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Thu Jan 4 17:39:48 2001
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
Cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, <aui@mit.edu>
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 04 Jan 2001 17:39:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: "t. belton"'s message of "Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:04:02 -0500 (EST)"
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<tbelton@MIT.EDU> (t. belton) writes:
> You rollover-focus people. Bah :) What do you do when you suddenly get
> engrossed in editing or typing long text and you shove the mouse out of
> the way to get rid of that distracting cursor and suddenly you're not
> typing in the correct window anymore?
You use the "unclutter" program so that the distracting cursor
disappeared after you left the mouse alone for a few seconds.
- Nathan