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Don't move mouse on alt-tab with Active Window Tracking
I have just enabled Active Window Tracking (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc957204) which gives kind of Sloppy focus in Windows 7. However, when I alt-tab to a new window, if my cursor is ...
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Automatically focus window on mouse hover only across multiple monitors
I have multiple monitors setup on Windows 7.
I want a window to be focused only if my mouse hovered over it when coming from other monitor (this is how it worked when I used Synergy with multiple ...
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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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Something is stealing focus from the active window [closed]
Some kind of program is stealing focus from the active window, it's quite strange. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
So for example I open Notepad++ and start typing. After some time (few minutes, ...
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Window often loses focus in Windows 7 on Lenovo B580
I have a new laptop Lenovo B580, with Windows 7. As I write, the window sometimes loses focus and I cannot write anymore. Or it happens that the cursor moves within the window. It behaves like is a ...
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send keystroke to window under cursor ( prevent focus stealing )
i m playing poker on a couple of pokersites with the help of several ahk scripts to send hotkeys to table (window) under mouse.
one pokerroom (carbon poker) though, keeps stealing focus and activates ...
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Focus previous window when I close one instead of one of the same application in Mac OS X?
The situation is: I have one MacVim open for coding. Then I switch to iTerm to run git commit, which will open a new MacVim for editing the commit message per my setting. The problem is, when I finish ...
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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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Bash/xdotool: Commands work, but not in a script
I am making a bash script for Linux which closes the terminal window if the window loses focus.
On the command line, I was able to do this:
termwin=$(xdotool getactivewindow)
while :
do
if [[ ...
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Why are my Windows 7 System Alerts not coming to the front?
Ever since I installed Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 on my Dell XPS M1730, system alerts (for example, the alert you get when installing software that wants to make modifications to your computer) will flash ...
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How to make a scheduled window-creating program not steal the focus?
I have written a small console program that checks that all my websites are up and running properly. I use the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler to run this program automatically once a day.
The ...
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All windows dropdowns close instantly
Any combobox I try to open in the system closes itself instantly after having slided open. This makes it impossible to select something in a combobox. An example combobox is the one allowing you to ...
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Windows 7: can't reopen minimised window on taskbar, preview OK
I have a program and want to either bring its Window to the front or reopen it after it is minimised.
It is on the taskbar and hovering over it shows the preview of the window. However clicking on ...
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XWindows-like mouse behaviour in Windows 7
I currently use Linux as my primary desktop OS, and have done for more years than I care to remember. In recent years I've settled on GNOME and XFCE as my environments of choice.
For a number of ...
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Why does my application keeps switching to a different monitor when it regains focus?
I'm working in a dual-monitor setup, with FireFox maximized to one monitor.
When I minimize or close Firefox, or switch to a different application that completely hides Firefox, when I return to ...
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Focus on installer of extracted file after download in Chrome on OS X Lion
When I download something in OS X, say an installer or zip file, from Chrome and I click it, it doesn't get focus. So I have go to Mission Control and find where it is. Any way to get focus ...
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Establishing “SIGWINFOCUS” as a standard [closed]
As a corrolary to this question, which I've been thinking about since reading it, what would it take to get something like SIGWINFOCUS established as a standard signal along with SIGWINCH? Obviously, ...
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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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Mac OS focus on right-click
Is there any way to have Mac OS focus a window that I right-click on? It happens to me quite frequently that I right-click on something, choose "rename" or "create file" or what have you, need to type ...
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Applications losing focus for a few seconds in Windows 7
Recently all of my applications keep losing focus every minute (or so) for a few seconds (then the window gets the focus back). It is very annoying, since I'm typing most of the time and get ...
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With drag and drop, is there a way to make a destination folder/app window stay on top with the source folder window underneath (Windows and Linux)?
Scenario:
You have a file Window, where you want to drag a file from, and on top of this Window is another window, the destination: an app or other window.
So you click on the file you want on the ...
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Stop application windows hiding when app loses focus
How can I stop windows on my mac (Mac OS Snow Leopard) from hiding when the app that owns the window loses focus.
Not all apps on the mac do this, but Photoshop and Transmission are perfect examples ...
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get focus only by clicking the title bar of xterm
I've suffered this problem many times and so do my colleagues
Sometimes after you stroked some keyboard and mouse combinations this behavior showed up : you have to click a xterm's title bar to focus ...
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Control two windows at the same time?
I want control Excel with my keyboard while using the mouse on Firefox. I need to maximize Excel and I have multiple screens so covering the distance to travel between them is a little annoying.
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X11 application losing focus after 1-2 secs
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.5 and I'm trying to run some applications on X11 2.3.6.
Any application I run, xterm included, loses focus after 1-2 seconds, making them impossible to use.
I'm running ...
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Stop Windows XP applications from stealing focus
I have Windows XP Profesional here and it gets very annoying when an application that I launched five minutes ago finally brings up its main window and steals focus from the email that I'm writing (or ...
