Re: label positioning using fltk

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

> On 02/07/2011 02:10 PM, bpabbott wrote:
>> Forgive my ignorance, when running Ubuntu how may I tell X11 to not have new 
>> windows grab the focus?
>> 
>> Ben
> Not showing much ignorance: this is pretty esoteric.  It was John Eaton
> who first explained it to me.  And, it does depend on what window manager
> you use.  I only know how to do it for Metacity and Gnome.  If this is the
> case:
> run: gconf-editor &
> 
> then click on: apps -> metacity -> general -> focus_new_window
> at this point set focus-new-window to strict
> 
> If you are using another window manager there is likely a similar
> configuration change.
> 
> Michael

Thanks. That will let me continue to work on other things while running Soren's 
dump_demo's script.

Now if I can just figure out how to do that in MacOS.

Ben