Yes, thanks, that does it for the Terminal.app, but not for any of the rest. It would be great to have such a feature globally.
mb1pja wrote: > Dear Bill > > William Scott wrote > >> Aqua simply behaves by slightly different rules. Although I am a >> slobbering OS X fan, this lack of customizability to me, as well as >> a lack >> of focus-follows-mouse, it a negative. > > > To get focus-follows-mouse in Aqua, type the following in your > Terminal window: > > defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES > > and then logout and log in again or quit and restart Terminal. > > I had thought I originally got that useful hint from your own fabulous > PX on OSX pages but clearly not. > > > > best wishes > > Pete Artymiuk > > > > On 20 Jan 2008, at 15:39, William Scott wrote: > >> Hi David: >> >> david lawson (JIC) wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Sorry for the slightly off-topic subject. >>> >>> We have recently bought a few iMacs for crystallography. I'm not >>> keen on >>> the supplied "mighty mouse" >> >> May I have them? >> >>> so I have switched to using a microsoft >>> 3-button wheel mouse. I would like to configure it so that it >>> behaves as >>> it would with other unix systems such as RH Linux. >> >> You managed to use "Microsoft", "behaved" and "Linux" (albeit RH) >> all in >> one sentence without a hint of irony. >> >> >>> >>> i.e. >>> (1) double-clicking with LH button on a file name selects ALL of the >>> file name, not just up to the first full stop. >> >> Although your choice of Microsoft products shows dedication to a >> company >> with a firm reputation for placing the customizability needs of its >> customers ahead of its own desire to make profits, the first thing to >> realize is that you should never ever ever install their drivers. >> Ever. So >> if you did, take them out, now, and reboot. I'll wait. It is still >> early >> Sunday morning here. >> >> >>> (2) clicking the scroll wheel pastes the selected text AND it can be >>> done multiple times without re-selecting. >> >> When you've gotten rid of the drivers, this should now work. In >> Apple's >> Terminal program (as of 10.5) and iTerm (as of 1215), you just set the >> preference to do middle-button-paste and left-button select, and >> Blair's >> your uncle. Unfortunately, in pretty much every other application I >> can >> think of on OS X, this, sadly, does not work, and there is nothing >> Steve >> Gates will let you do about it. >> >> >>> (2) I would like these functions to work in terminal windows, the >>> ccp4i >>> gui and web pages (and probably a few other things I haven't >>> thought of >>> yet!) AND be able to transfer the selected text between applications. >> >> I'd like to be at my ideal high-school weight, be paid more than a >> postdoc, and, well ... Getting the OS X gui to play nice with X11 is >> sometimes challenging. With the exception of Terminal and iTerm, >> you have >> to explicitly put stuff in the copy/paste buffer (command-C) before >> it is >> in the system clipboard. Then you can paste to X11 programs with a >> middle-button click, but this only works if you uninstalled that viral >> driver. Going from X11 to aqua programs requires selecting the text >> in the >> usual X11 manner but explicitly issuing the paste command (command- >> p). If >> you are using KDE X11 applications, you are really in for headaches. >> >> To get whole-string selection in iTerm or Terminal, there is a >> preference >> setting that allows you to input which characters you want to have >> considered parts of a "word" for click-to-select purposes. >> Unfortunately, >> pretty much every other application lacks this customizability, and >> I know >> of no system-wide preference setting that would enable you to do this >> globally. >> >> Aqua simply behaves by slightly different rules. Although I am a >> slobbering OS X fan, this lack of customizability to me, as well as >> a lack >> of focus-follows-mouse, it a negative. >> >> If you really need the canonical linux behavior, you can install >> gnome, >> xfce4, KDE, enlightenment, or any number of other window managers via >> fink. I've found KDE buggy and the XFCE4 is way out of date. Gnome is >> probably the best bet, and there is a major effort now to bring it >> completely up to date in fink. >> >>> >>> I have installed the microsoft intellipoint drivers that seem to give >>> more control over configuring the various buttons through "system >>> preferences", but I still can't get what I want. >> >> Therein lies the problem, I am afraid. OS X will behave better using >> the >> default settings. It may be possible to tinker around with the >> driver, >> including separate settings in X11, to recover canonical behavior, >> but for >> purposes of sanity, uninstall them first, get everything working as >> best >> as possible, verify middle-button-paste works in X11, verify X11 >> coot and >> pymol do the right thing, and then if you need additional >> functionality, >> reinstall the drivers, verify things like coot and pymol still use the >> middle button correctly, or adjust until they do, and only then try >> customizing. >> >> Best of luck! >> >> >> Bill >> >> >> >>> >>> Any help would be much appreciated. >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >>> Dave Lawson >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> Dr. David M. Lawson >>> Biological Chemistry Dept., >>> John Innes Centre, >>> Norwich, >>> NR4 7UH, UK. >>> Tel: +44-(0)1603-450725 >>> Fax: +44-(0)1603-450018 >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Web: http://www.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/staff/david-lawson/index.htm >>> >>> >
