Re: [vile] focusFollowsMouse with winvile?

[J. Chris Coppick]

On 10/22/2010 12:23 PM, Chris G wrote:
> 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.
> 

Let me google that for you...  :-)

http://duane.thecoderblogs.com/2008/12/12/focus-follows-mouse-vista/

   Chris C.