how far have mac's made it into large installations?
Robert Harker
harker at harker.com
Fri Apr 22 18:11:25 PDT 2011
Ahh, if Macs only had "pick and stuff" and "focus follows mouse". I was given a Mac when I joined Yahoo. Nice hardware, but I hate it.
What was two clicks under X-windows, pick (highlit) the text. Move mouse to second window and click to stuff the text move the mouse to the first window and do simething useful. Becomes 3 or more clicks and two keyboard strokes. High light the text, apple C to copy the text, click to select second window (Which pops to the top), apple V to paste the text, and then click on the original window to go back.
I know about highlighting text and dragging it, but it does not always work. And it doesn't work if you touch anything between highlighting the text and trying to drag. I just found myself clicking the mouse all the time and about half the time typing in a different window unexpectedly. More than once I typed my password into the IRC. Oops...
If I had never used pick and stuff, I would be happy. But I am an old gray beard. "When I was a lad we used Suntools".
I now mostly work at my RHEL desktop at work and do not enjoy working remotely.
RLH
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