On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 28.10.11 10:45, Tim Connors wrote:
I think the usual argument is "it just works" (somewhat like Apples - I can at least understand that in principle, although it never worked for me, with my brain being wired to focus-follows-mouse-but-not-raise, and with middle click being broken in the opengl X11 apps I was programming,
One of the first things I tweaked after the first Ubuntu install was focus-follows-mouse-but-not-raise. If you don't mind using the GUI (just once), then System->Preferences->Windows presents that option.
Dunno how middle click needs to work for you, but on my 3-button mouse, Left selects, Middle pastes, and ^Right pops up the "VT Fonts" dialogue. For pasting into Vim, middle click is _essential_ for me.
OSX sorry (and the X11 therein, at least several years ago. Maybe it and fink have improved since). The OSX gui model is fundamentally not compatibile[1] with focus-follows-mouse-but-not-raise, as the menu bar is in that stupid position off to the top of the left-hand monitor. I note also that OSX doesn't work at all well with multiple monitors. [1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-follows-mouse-deb... BLONK! BLONK! BLONK!
and with package management being useless), but demonstrably, it just doesn't work (so completely unlike, I mean, like Apple then).
I've installed a couple of dozen packages, including a couple of toolchains, without anything but flawlessness. (That I can recall) It has worked so well that my long-term habit of building cross-compiler toolchains and various favourite apps has fallen into disuse.
Its repository when I last looked at it was smaller than redhat enterprise and had bugger all in it. Not so good for someone used to debian. Also, at that time, you had to build from source. Ie, it was a poor man's version of gentoo. Er sorry, I'm talking about OSX here, I just realised you might be talking about Ubuntu. That'll teach me for having the hightail ale. And or talking about Apple in the first set of bracketted text.
It's NetworkMunger, the "DO NOT EDIT" crap in config files, and the other user-alienating M$-style arrogance which will cause me to flip back to Debian. (I like to upgrade every 3-4 years, if it seems warranted, but Ubuntu may offend fatally before then.)
Heh. My next install might just be debian+kFreeBSD+zfs because I'm getting so sick of Linux. But I'm not due to buy new computers for another 3 years, unless the now-3 year old computers crap out before then. Come on, crap out before then, dammit. No wait, the hardware is getting worse too. -- Tim Connors