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applications launched by keyboard hotkey start in background
I have recently acquired a keyboard (Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000) that has buttons to launch a variety of applications. I've installed the keyboard's drivers, and when I press the buttons the ...
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How can I stop Windows Taskbar from hiding a focused application when I click the app's taskbar item? [duplicate]
Currently, on Windows, if you click an app in the taskbar, it is brought to the front of the desktop.
However, if the app is already at the front it is sent to the back of the desktop, i.e. hidden ...
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Close the Find/Replace dialog in Notepad++ with a keyboard shortcut?
When I do a find (not a find all, which closes the dialog) or replace in Notepad++, the focus will remain on the find/replace dialog. If I want to focus on the main window with the text in it, I ...
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How to make the scroll wheel to affect always what's under the mouse pointer? [duplicate]
It happens to me so many times that I roll the scroll wheel over some scrollable element, but the thing DOES NOT SCROLL. What's worse, something else on another part of the screen may scroll.
I know ...
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Windows scroll without focus
So I have a windows 8 laptop at home, and a windows 7 laptop at work. Both have synaptics touchpads. The problem is that on the work laptop, I can scroll any window regardless of which one is ...
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On demand keyboard focus indicator for all monitors?
Is there a way in Windows to indicate on all displays which window|process has the keyboard focus, only on demand by a keyboard shortcut?
(For example with a bigger and centered visual indicator (per ...
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Use keyboard to shift focus to extension popup in chrome
So I know that in chrome you can now assign custom shortcuts that allow you to essentially "click" on an extension window.
However, is there any way to use the keyboard to focus on elements in the ...
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Bring OSX terminal to front after command finishes
I'm looking for a way for the terminal to get my attention after a command finishes. Something like this:
$ ./lengthy_command.sh ; focus_terminal
Is there any easy way to do that on Snow Leopard?
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Make UAC dialog have focus by default
I recently threw in some extra RAM and an SSD into a pretty old laptop and tossed in an unused copy of Windows 7, and to my surprise it works pretty well. The only thing I had problems with was the ...
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Linux Mint loses Window Focus
I recently installed Linux Mint 13 64bit with Cinamon Desktop and run into a weird problem.
It's about losing Mouse-Focus if more than one Window are open.
For Example, I open up Chromium, play ...
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Chrome add-on to enable searched text get focus
Does anyone know if there is an add-on for Chrome such that if I search for text on a page and the text happens to be within a control that can accept the focus, then if I click a button, the text ...
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Firefox steals focus from RocketDock
If Firefox (v3.6.28) is running, RocketDock (with Layering set to "Always on Top") shows above Firefox but if in Firefox I do certain things (such as writing a post or watching a YouTube clip) ...
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Focus last modified cell when opening Excel
When I open an Excel file with a large number of cells, I want it to focus the last modified cell, i.e., the last cell in which I entered/changed data the last time I used Excel.
How can I ...
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Geting focus when rotating mouse wheel
In Ubuntu when you rotate mouse wheel while mouse pointer is in a region (for example you can volume up or down without any click while you rotate mouse on volume icon in system trey), that region ...
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google search on safari 6: tab pressing to select the next result
On Chrome, after a google search is possible to press TAB to cycle the focus throught search results. Then you can press ENTER to select and open that link.
Is possible to do the same on Safari 6?
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Mouse over activating window
Windows 7 has a setting where mouse over will activate a window. This would be handy except that it only works on the window itself if it was originally visible, not on the taskbar, or on the ...
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I want to DEACTIVATE the window's focus, please help me
I want to disable something for a specific window :
the window's ability to get activated or focused. Everytime a window gets a focus or it gets activated( ex: when you click on it ) ,the window ...
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Can background window focus on mouseover be configured to update the Alt+Tab order?
I'm using Windows 7's focus follows cursor model, without raise to front. Unfortunately, the Alt+Tab MRU order isn't updated to reflect the focus change. Here's the behavior (^ indicates focus in ...
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How can I disable the search bar getting focus?
I am a Windows 7 user and my browser is Firefox 11. Lately I've been having this pain in the ass problem that seems to not get solved no matter where I go. So, here it goes.
I use key bindings to ...
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On Windows, is there any way to make the scrollwheel's focus follow the mouse?
On Mac OS X I can mouse over something (without clicking on it or giving it complete focus) and use the scroll wheel to scroll it. On Windows (7 at least) which I'm forced to use in my new job, it ...
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Keystroke to set focus on a particular browser - for Linux
I am doing web development, and I found that I always lose focus on the browser that I am doing development on.
I always open other browser windows at the same time for searching, writing, etc. So ...
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Does Win7 software exist that logs the name of windows with focus
I'd like to buy a Windows 7 program that locally logs the name of all windows that get focus, along with the duration of focus. www.realtime-spy.com appears to do the job (and more), but it stores ...
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Giving focus to a desktop icon using the keyboard
When I start Windows 7 none of the icons on my desktop have focus. I have to click on one of the icons with the mouse to give it focus. Is there a keyboard shortcut to give focus to an icon? (It ...
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Why does the Firefox download dialog sometimes lose focus?
When I'm clicking a link to start a download, sometimes the main window steals the focus from the download dialog. This is extremely annoying for me as I have a habit of pressing enter to get to the ...
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How to highlight my currently focused monitor (in multi-monitor display)
I have added a second monitor and am now working in a multi-monitor display (in Windows 7).
I have a constant problem with window focus, where I'm looking at one monitor, doing something with the ...
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How to detect a background program (in Windows 7) which steals active focus automatically?
A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen.
I ...
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Bizarre Windows7 task bar behavior on right-click menu
I've recently installed Windows 7, 64-bit. I'm seeing a strange behavior with the task bar.
When I right click a running program on the task bar, a menu pops up, typically with the program name, ...
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Focus URL in Firefox - 100% guaranteed way
How can I guaranteed, 100% ,absolutely etc. focus URL in Firefox browser?
If there is Flash on page that focus is on it and CTR-L doesn't focus URL.
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Outlook 2007 opens new mail messages behind main window and has to be minimised to use them
Outlook 2007, on Windows 7, has just started behaving rather bizarrely. When I reply to an email or click on the "new" button it opens the new email window behind the main Outlook one and won't let me ...
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Prevent Focus-Stealing from any PopUp Window [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7: Disable applications stealing focus
I have a really annoying behavior on my Windows XP System. Any PopUp Windows (e.g. asking me for my network signin) ...
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Portable Screen Capture App [duplicate]
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Can anyone recommend a simple screenshot tool that can be installed as a portable app?
... that quickly facilitates the de-focusing of inverted selections (I.e., Capture ...
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Portable Screen Capture App [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can anyone recommend a simple screenshot tool that can be installed as a portable app?
... that quickly facilitates the de-focusing of inverted selections (I.e., Capture ...
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Is there a way to set Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 to dictate to an unfocused application?
Does anyone know of a way in which to instruct Dragon to remain focused on a designated application regardless of its focus status instead of following focus changes? The primary use case we have is ...
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Why does the task pictogram flashes instead of opening the program?
Sometimes, when I select a click a program on the Windows 7 taskbar it won't appear (it doesn't gain focus and remains behind other open windows), and the icon will flash and turn orange. This happens ...
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Multiple desktops in Windows
I'm running a program that uses WatiN to automate file uploads to different websites. I currently run it on a machine that I remote into via the standard Remote Desktop Connection in Windows - once I ...
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How to tell if user is actively typing in Linux?
I'd like to write a little script to ask me what I'm doing at regular intervals, but I'd like it not to grab focus if I'm in the middle of writing an email or filling in a password. The two options ...
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Stop taskeng.exe window from popping up
I have several processes scheduled in my Windows 7 environment, mainly for backups, that are supposed to run in the background.
However instead of just doing it's work quietly in the background, the ...
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Hide all application windows except a specified one on OS X
Is there a free and stable solution satisfying this kind of need and preferably having a menu bar to let the user to exclude a particular app?
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Windows 7: Disable applications stealing focus
Is there any way to prevent specific programs from stealing window focus in Windows 7?
Windows 7 doesn't have the option of using PowerToys' TweakUI, which has been suggested in the past for stopping ...
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Windows 7 Explorer - Activate mouse focus to be able to scroll in tree and file view?
I'd like to be able to scroll in the tree view without having to click in it. Is there a way to do this?
I have once used a tool that generally gives focus to the window underneath the mouse cursor, ...
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windows 7 - when I open a folder in windows explorer (details view) via autohotkey focus is on the columns header
So when I press enter the list is reordered instead of the highlighted file/folder to open/ run
Any workarounds ???
Win7 home Premium if this helps
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Flash overrides Firefox keyboard shortcuts — how to turn that off?
I often cycle through my Firefox tabs using Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. But whenever it reaches a tab that is running a Flash (or similar) plugin, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab won't work anymore, ...
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Tool to find what window is stopping my Auto Hide
I frequently have a window that wants me to click on it. Some times I don't notice which one it is.
This causes my auto hide tool bar to not hide. I then have to play hide and seek with the window ...
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Prevent a repeatedly running console program from taking focus
I'm running windows 7. Every 10 seconds, a script will run that will send a popup command line box and close at the end of the script.
In the meantime, when I'm using other applications, I am ...
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KDE 4.5: Focus on scroll
With KDE 3.5 windows always got focus as soon as I scrolled over them but with KDE 4.x this doesn't seem to be possible.
At the Focus settings I only see the policies "Click to focus", "Focus Follows ...
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How to start a virtual keyboard without losing focus in Windows XP?
I need to start a virtual keyboard from my application (namely click-n-type) to allow user input in the active field.
When I use the start click-n-type.exe the keyboard starts normally but I lose ...
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Confirm form resubmission dialog in IE8 doesn't have focus
When the "Confirm form resubmission" dialog comes up (after pressing F5 refresh) in certain sites, I used to just press Enter or the space bar and it would hit enter.
In IE8, the dialog box doesn't ...
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disabling focus stealing in Mac OS X?
I have a program that works in the background but whenever it does something, it steals mouse focus. Often, while I'm in the middle of typing something. Needless to say, this is very annoying.
Is it ...
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Mac OS X: finder window keeps opening by itself and stealing focus
I have a Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11 here, with an annoying problem. After starting the computer and logging in, the finder keeps stealing focus. You can go back to your working app, but a minute ...
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How do i keep a newly started program from taking focus?
Say i'm coding in emacs and want to start up a music program. Because it takes too long to start up i go back to coding and type away.
When the music application starts up, the focus is stolen ...
