Re: mc Digest, Vol 96, Issue 4

[Alan Corey <alan01346 gmail com>]

On 4/28/12, mc-request gnome org <mc-request gnome org> wrote:
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>    1. disable mouse sort order? (Alan Corey)
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:44:42 -0400
> From: Alan Corey <alan01346 gmail com>
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> Subject: disable mouse sort order?
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> I think its great that its there, but is there way way to turn it off
> other than starting mc with mc -d?
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> Most often I'm just clicking in a window to give the window the focus,
> and at least once a day I click the wrong place and mess up the sort
> order.  I try to not click column headings anymore, but it still
> changes.  An option to disable this in settings would work best for
> me.
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>   Alan
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> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:35:51 +0100 (BST)
> From: Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>
> To: Alan Corey <alan01346 gmail com>
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> Subject: Re: disable mouse sort order?
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> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Alan Corey wrote:
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> > To: mc gnome org
> > From: Alan Corey <alan01346 gmail com>
> > Subject: disable mouse sort order?
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> > I think its great that its there, but is there way way to turn it off
> > other than starting mc with mc -d?
> >
> > Most often I'm just clicking in a window to give the window the focus,
> > and at least once a day I click the wrong place and mess up the sort
> > order.  I try to not click column headings anymore, but it still
> > changes.  An option to disable this in settings would work best for
> > me.
>
> Hi Alan. Why click to bring a window into focus? I'm running
> the XFCE4 desktop on Centos Linux 5.7, and I have the
> desktop set so that the window focus follows the mouse
> pointer. That means as soon as I place my mouse pointer on a
> window, that automatically brings that window into focus -
> without me having to click.
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> Not sure what OS you are running though?
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> Kind Regards,
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> Keith Roberts
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I'm using OpenBSD, window manager is FVWM, Focus style is
"SloppyFocus".  The focus stays in whatever window I clicked in last
until I change it.  The default is something like you described but I
didn't like it so I changed it.

  Alan

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