It would appear that on May 13, Alan Corey did say: > FreeBSD used to have midc set up driving a script that drove mc after > doing other stuff, so I used that. > > Spent over a day using mc -d and no crashes yet. An unexpected benefit > is that now I can copy from mc's viewer instead of having it go > berserk when I click in it.
That (to me) is the main reason to use the -d... But then I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts to switch the focus... > Well, this is a Dell 24" widescreen monitor which I use at it's native > 1920x1080 (HDTV) resolution. I put a screenshot at > http://ab1jx.webs.com/toys/dell24.gif so people can see why I'd want > to click in a window to shift the focus. I have it at arm's length > and wear my reading glasses. I can read the smaller rxvt windows, but > shift +/- (after clicking in them) zooms them up and down. I can have > them all small then zoom the one I want to work in. Yup, you organize differently than I do. But if I kept so many open windows on the same desktop area, then being able to click on the one I want to work with next without messing up it's content would be a priority for sure. I on the other hand use multiple virtual desktop areas (workspaces some call em) to organize my open stuff by project and or category. I configured E17 to have 12 separate desktop areas. Which I associated with <ctrl>+<Fkey> combinations. (I did find it necessary to disable E17's "edje bindings" which wanted to switch desktop areas every time the {expletive deleted} rodent pointer drifted too close to the edge of the screen.) Each desktop area has it's own distinctive background image so I can at a glance be sure I'm where I think I am before opening an application or terminal window. I dedicate one area for general web browsing with opera. another has a terminal window running my preferred mail client {alpine} Which will on my command use firefox to open a link. {This way I can easily purge all cookies etc and slam the browser session closed without disturbing anything opera might have indexed} In a like manor there is yet another area where I would use firefox to access my online banking or other secure site where my personal paranoia protocol requires that I always do: {"purge all" then connect then "purge all" then "browser close"}. Yet another desktop area is dedicated to any entertainment be it some game or watching a dvd etc... And there is one reserved for any root shell and/or package management windows. The rest are for "project du jour". Inside of each project I might have more than one open window (most sized nearly to full screen proportions so that on my arms length 17" Sony flatscreen I can use font sizes that don't require me to find my durned reading glasses.) But seldom so many that it's inconvenient to use <alt>+<tab> to scroll to the one I'm looking for. > Maybe one approach would be to have the window manager consume the > first mouse click in a window when that mouse click is in an unfocused > window. I wouldn't be surprised if fvwm can be set to do that, in the > window styles, but I haven't looked into it because I just thought of > it. That sounds to me like it would be a good feature. But if aliasing mc to the -d option works for you, why bother? Have a nice day! -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<[email protected]>> _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
