Re: [vile] focusFollowsMouse with winvile?

[Chris G]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 05:49:53PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:24:53 +0100
> Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:45:21AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > I'm working on a project where I'm forced to use Miscrosoft Windows, so
> > > of course I'm using winvile.
> > > 
> > > My question - is there any way to get something like the
> > > XVile.focusFollowsMouse behavior?  I use that all the time and keep
> > > forgetting to click the mouse to change focus, which results in botched
> > > editing sessions.
> > > 
> > 
> > You can get "focus follows mouse" in windows as a whole easily enough.
> > Just install TweakUI which is part of Microsoft Power Toys for XP and
> > you can (among several other things) set "focus follows mouse".
> > 
> 
> I'm running Vista, not XP.
> 
I think there's TweakUI for Vista as well.

> I'm also referencing giving focus to a buffer when you have a split
> winvile window showing two buffers and you move the mouse over one of
> them.  That works under X11, but not with winvile.
> 
> That's something different from moving the mouse over a window being
> managed by Windows.  Focus follows mouse seems to be standard with
> Vista.
> 
I sort of realised that but thought I would mention TweakUI anyway.

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Chris Green