Dear Bill
William Scott wrote
> Aqua simply behaves by slightly different rules. Although I am a
> slobbering OS X fan, this lack of customizability to me, as well as
> a lack
> of focus-follows-mouse, it a negative.
To get focus-follows-mouse in Aqua, type the following in your
Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
and then logout and log in again or quit and restart Terminal.
I had thought I originally got that useful hint from your own fabulous
PX on OSX pages but clearly not.
best wishes
Pete Artymiuk
On 20 Jan 2008, at 15:39, William Scott wrote:
> Hi David:
>
> david lawson (JIC) wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Sorry for the slightly off-topic subject.
>>
>> We have recently bought a few iMacs for crystallography. I'm not
>> keen on
>> the supplied "mighty mouse"
>
> May I have them?
>
>> so I have switched to using a microsoft
>> 3-button wheel mouse. I would like to configure it so that it
>> behaves as
>> it would with other unix systems such as RH Linux.
>
> You managed to use "Microsoft", "behaved" and "Linux" (albeit RH)
> all in
> one sentence without a hint of irony.
>
>
>>
>> i.e.
>> (1) double-clicking with LH button on a file name selects ALL of the
>> file name, not just up to the first full stop.
>
> Although your choice of Microsoft products shows dedication to a
> company
> with a firm reputation for placing the customizability needs of its
> customers ahead of its own desire to make profits, the first thing to
> realize is that you should never ever ever install their drivers.
> Ever. So
> if you did, take them out, now, and reboot. I'll wait. It is still
> early
> Sunday morning here.
>
>
>> (2) clicking the scroll wheel pastes the selected text AND it can be
>> done multiple times without re-selecting.
>
> When you've gotten rid of the drivers, this should now work. In
> Apple's
> Terminal program (as of 10.5) and iTerm (as of 1215), you just set the
> preference to do middle-button-paste and left-button select, and
> Blair's
> your uncle. Unfortunately, in pretty much every other application I
> can
> think of on OS X, this, sadly, does not work, and there is nothing
> Steve
> Gates will let you do about it.
>
>
>> (2) I would like these functions to work in terminal windows, the
>> ccp4i
>> gui and web pages (and probably a few other things I haven't
>> thought of
>> yet!) AND be able to transfer the selected text between applications.
>
> I'd like to be at my ideal high-school weight, be paid more than a
> postdoc, and, well ... Getting the OS X gui to play nice with X11 is
> sometimes challenging. With the exception of Terminal and iTerm,
> you have
> to explicitly put stuff in the copy/paste buffer (command-C) before
> it is
> in the system clipboard. Then you can paste to X11 programs with a
> middle-button click, but this only works if you uninstalled that viral
> driver. Going from X11 to aqua programs requires selecting the text
> in the
> usual X11 manner but explicitly issuing the paste command (command-
> p). If
> you are using KDE X11 applications, you are really in for headaches.
>
> To get whole-string selection in iTerm or Terminal, there is a
> preference
> setting that allows you to input which characters you want to have
> considered parts of a "word" for click-to-select purposes.
> Unfortunately,
> pretty much every other application lacks this customizability, and
> I know
> of no system-wide preference setting that would enable you to do this
> globally.
>
> Aqua simply behaves by slightly different rules. Although I am a
> slobbering OS X fan, this lack of customizability to me, as well as
> a lack
> of focus-follows-mouse, it a negative.
>
> If you really need the canonical linux behavior, you can install
> gnome,
> xfce4, KDE, enlightenment, or any number of other window managers via
> fink. I've found KDE buggy and the XFCE4 is way out of date. Gnome is
> probably the best bet, and there is a major effort now to bring it
> completely up to date in fink.
>
>>
>> I have installed the microsoft intellipoint drivers that seem to give
>> more control over configuring the various buttons through "system
>> preferences", but I still can't get what I want.
>
> Therein lies the problem, I am afraid. OS X will behave better using
> the
> default settings. It may be possible to tinker around with the
> driver,
> including separate settings in X11, to recover canonical behavior,
> but for
> purposes of sanity, uninstall them first, get everything working as
> best
> as possible, verify middle-button-paste works in X11, verify X11
> coot and
> pymol do the right thing, and then if you need additional
> functionality,
> reinstall the drivers, verify things like coot and pymol still use the
> middle button correctly, or adjust until they do, and only then try
> customizing.
>
> Best of luck!
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Dave Lawson
>>
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>>
>> Dr. David M. Lawson
>> Biological Chemistry Dept.,
>> John Innes Centre,
>> Norwich,
>> NR4 7UH, UK.
>> Tel: +44-(0)1603-450725
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>>
>>
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