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Offline Matt_H

Re: Could you PC loving Aholes go home?
« on: November 18, 2012, 11:59:29 PM »
Windows/Linux/Mac still can't do proper screens. Game, set, match.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: Could you PC loving Aholes go home?
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2012, 03:05:34 AM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;715589
???

What is a proper screen?


Desktop in one resolution, application in another. Non-Amigas still can't do it without reinitializing the whole display.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: Could you PC loving Aholes go home?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2012, 12:55:06 AM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;715645
Does this really matter?  I can't think of any programs I use on a daily basis that don't pull my desktop resolution.


Games, VMWare, other emulators. I wouldn't mind so much if not for the fact that when flipping back to the desktop, all of my windows and icons have been squished and repositioned to fit the resolution of the program I was just running. And it's slow as hell.

Besides, I much prefer running a somewhat low-res desktop with high-res programs opening on their own screen. Left Amiga+M is instantaneous and depends only on the monitor resyncing. On Windows, try Alt+Tabbing to PowerPoint after you've been working in another program for a while and see how long it takes. Try Alt+Tabbing back from a game to look at another window - if it even lets you.

Oh, on a related matter, my usual old chestnut: the ability to have the active window not be the frontmost one - how the Windows/Mac/Linux world hasn't gotten to this one yet is mind-boggling.

Amiga: We still got it (in some areas) :)
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: Could you PC loving Aholes go home?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2012, 04:07:04 AM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;715810
weird.  I don't get this behavior when I quit out of some game that changes the screen res.



I don't think I do that at all.

You're one lucky ducky! :)
I don't think it's ever *not* happened to me.

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Well, on the linux side, you can make your windows do whatever the hell you want to.  If you want focus to be explicit, you can set it that way.  Also, I have always hated active window not being in the forefront.

I was not aware of this. Which window manager lets you do this (in case I ever put another Linux box together)?
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: Could you PC loving Aholes go home?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2012, 06:52:53 PM »
Quote from: TheBilgeRat;715827
I think this is what you may be after.

http://bertrandbenoit.blogspot.com/2011/09/change-window-behavior-to-prevent-focus.html

  Granted, I don't muck around with windowing behavior (the GUI is really just there to let me run non-console programs...half the time I work in DWM), but in most modern OSes they call it "focus" and most DEs have ways of mucking about with it.


Thanks. I think the behavior in that article is slightly different from what I'd like to see, but I'll keep it bookmarked for future reference.