Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!uflorida!gatech!rutgers!orstcs!ruffwork From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Automatic mouse cursor movement Message-ID: <4964@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 88 20:35:38 GMT References: <10799@apple.Apple.Com> <10700006@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> <5034@june.cs.washington.edu> <11088@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Ritchey Ruff) Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University, Corvallis Lines: 13 [on automatic mouse cursor movement] The X windowing system has "warping" which will move the mouse cursor to the middle of the newly activated window. I agree with the sun/apple people that this is VERY distracting (what? where did my mouse cursor go? oh! it's *way* over there!?!). if you had a very small screen it might not be to distracting, but normally I will keep a bunch of windows closed down, then descide to open up all the windows to machine "mist". if I left warping on (I have it turned off as much as possible) I would have to move the mouse all the way back over to the next icon to open it, then all the way back to open the next icon, etc. (i.e., I would have *LOTS* of wasted mouse movement). --ritchey ruff ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- tektronix!orstcs!ruffwork