how far have mac's made it into large installations?

Sun Apr 24 12:44:05 PDT 2011

yeah, and iTerm on OSX does it too.  The problem is that those of us
multi-button mouse X11 weaned users understand efficiency in the UI. 
Select in one app, move the mouse, paste.   I constantly forget that FF
doesn't do copy-on-select and end up pasting something else in my target
window.

Even on Windows you can set the Focus-Follows-Mouse option.  I haven't
found a way to do it on OSX, which seems strange to me, but I guess
Apple needs to keep all App's inputs simplified for the developer space
or something.

While I love tinkering with Linux on servers and even playing with
settings on a desktop, for me OSX is still a better corporate compatible
desktop than linux.  Most things I need to do my job are already there
or just an App install.   Having said that, I was able to get Windows to
do 90% of what I needed with the UI tweaks and cigwin+rxvt installed.

Linux just takes too much time to administer over the long run (for the
desktop UI only) for me.  I still fondly remember tweaking out my fvwm
and fvwm2 setups for hours into the night to get it just right...  But
these days, I just don't have the time or patience to do that for my
main desktop.

satch

On 4/22/11 7:41 PM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:11:11PM -0700, JC Lawrence wrote:
>> On 22Apr 2011, at 18:11, Robert Harker wrote:
>>
>>> Ahh, if Macs only had "pick and stuff" and "focus follows mouse".  I was given a Mac when I joined Yahoo.  Nice hardware, but I hate it.
>> FWLIW the technical term for this behaviour is "Copy on Select".  I also miss it.  I've asked people inside Apple if it might be possible via arcane unpublished configuration, but it is not.   For various reasons it violates assorted usability guidelines and principles (eg CUA and its children) and is thus unsupported by (MS)Windows or OS X.  
>>
>> -- JCL
> I use it via SecureCRT on Windows and OSX.
>
>