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Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.

And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.

Focus-follows-mouse doesn't work so great in OSX because of the global menubar, everywhere else it's great though!

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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It's a phase. I run into similar issues when using OSX while being used to Linux.

I went through a similar struggle when switching to a Mac about a year ago for work. I still miss the ability to drag windows around from anywhere by holding the alt key, and dragging any part of the window. Never found a good replacement in OSX.

You can do the same non-focused window dragging in OSX by holding down command. Actually, you can interact with the unfocused window when holding down command, click buttons, etc.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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post #119

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It's a phase. I run into similar issues when using OSX while being used to Linux.

I went through a similar struggle when switching to a Mac about a year ago for work. I still miss the ability to drag windows around from anywhere by holding the alt key, and dragging any part of the window. Never found a good replacement in OSX.

Dragging overlapping windows is a stupid idea to begin with. I use a keyboard based window manager as much as possible (Spectacle), and with splitscreen I can hopefully almost completely stop using windows.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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My son has been playing Witcher 3 for the last few weeks, and literally every time I walk by, there's a cutscene. I'm pretty sure I have yet to see anything but cutscenes. It's all cutscenes. Listening to it in the background, it sounds more like an episode of Sons of Anarchy than a traditional videogame.

The script is apparently ~450,000 words! I have 28 hours of playtime but the game only shows me at 17% completion - its massive and detailed open world is stunning.

450 kwords? That's like 2-3 large novels...

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.

And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.

> And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back.

Eh. I've used focus-follows-mouse and tend instead to strongly prefer the OS X method of allowing scroll events to percolate to the window under the cursor but retaining keyboard focus on the window it's currently in. This allows me to scroll, say, a web browser on my right-hand monitor, while continuing to type in the left.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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post #144
post #119

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I went through a similar struggle when switching to a Mac about a year ago for work. I still miss the ability to drag windows around from anywhere by holding the alt key, and dragging any part of the window. Never found a good replacement in OSX.

Dragging overlapping windows is a stupid idea to begin with. I use a keyboard based window manager as much as possible (Spectacle), and with splitscreen I can hopefully almost completely stop using windows.

Overlapping windows is what makes mouse based interaction fast. Not everybody wants to use keyboard all the time. Also, often times it is useful to have more than two windows on screen at a time.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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post #102

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The script is apparently ~450,000 words! I have 28 hours of playtime but the game only shows me at 17% completion - its massive and detailed open world is stunning.

450 kwords? That's like 2-3 large novels...

1984 was around 85,000 words (from memory). So 5 times that
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