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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I mentioned this in another thread but its worth repeating.
>
> FFM in Terminal.app
> default write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
> and restart Terminal.app
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031029203936659
>
> FFM in X11
> defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true
> and restart X11
>
> The hate here is that Apple hides these features rather than make them
> available through normal preference menus which are instead filled with such
> critical items like how transparent you want your terminal windows to be.
While it is, admittedly, hateful to require third party software to do
something easily in a GUI that had previously been hidden [in plain
sight?] in some obscure `defaults write` incantation, the original
problem is, itself, much more hateful.
Hence the appeal of TinkerTool:
<http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html>;
It doesn't provide a way to do this in X11 or the overall system, but
the Application setting for "Auto-activate windows by mouse cursor" in
Terminal seems to be the GUI equivalent of what you have above. ( So
that's a start.
Additionally, TinkerTool provides GUI ways to change all kinds of system
parameters -- hide the dock behind the top menu bar! allow the Finder
to quit! change the Finder's umask behavior for new files! turn on the
extremely useful Debug menu in Safari! -- all in one place.
Truly, Marcel Bresink has seen the Hate, and has not backed down.
If past is prelude, a new version of TinkerTool will be available soon
after Tiger is released, so that the things you hate in it may already
have remedies.
--
Chris Devers
There's stuff above here
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