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byrtkluttz ( 244325 ) writes:
They are worrying about inadvertent middle click when you have browsers that try to force you into using the address bar for other things. The address bar should be the address bar and nothing else. And that address should always display the FQDN that you are connecting to, not just the domain. Also, they need to stop text fields from being able to capture the cursor automatically. How many times have people clicked on a link and while waiting for the site to load went and did something else only to have th
bytest321 ( 8891681 ) writes:
How many times have people clicked on a link and while waiting for the site to load went and did something else only to have the browser force grab the cursor while you are typing other things, potentially critically private things.
What window manager or desktop environment do you use? (I use *box and KDE and I've never had that particular problem.)
byreanjr ( 588767 ) writes:
I have this problem on Wayland. One of the major reasons I refuse to use it. Something about their X compatibility layer messes up input focus.
byDamnOregonian ( 963763 ) writes:
Wayland absolutely does not allow this kind of stealing of focus. Something else funky is going on.
The only way an application has to take focus, or put itself on top, or anything like that is via the XDG Activation Protocol [wayland.app]
Different compositors have different levels of ...protection... from applications doing this, but importantly- it's up to the compositor.
In X, your compositor/decorator have no say over this whatsofucking ever, and any application can do it- or more importantly, just swipe your keyp
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
This is a very Wayland answer.
Wayland absolutely does not allow this kind of stealing of focus. Something else funky is going on.
The only way an application has to take focus, or put itself on top, or anything like that is via the XDG Activation Protocol
[...]In X[...]
Wayland doesn't allow this X11 FAIL at all. Here's how it's done in Wayland.
byDamnOregonian ( 963763 ) writes:
LOL- You could have just said, "I can't engage your argument, so I'm going to pull a fallacy out of my ass instead."
How fucking educated are you? Highschool? Get the fuck out of here.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
You haven't quite let me check off the wayland fanboi bingo card yet.
I've got
- "it's never Wayland's fault"
- Anger at someone not worshipping Wayland.
If you just yell at the user for wanting it to be fixed, and then tell the user they are wrong and it should be like that then I can get a whole row.
byDamnOregonian ( 963763 ) writes:
- "it's never Wayland's fault"
Never said that.
- Anger at someone not worshipping Wayland.
Outright lie.
You're no user, you're just a dumbfuck troll.
A user would have asked questions and got answers.
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byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
You're no user,
Correct, I am a user of X11 not Wayland since X is, frankly, better, somehow. I find that a bit mystifying but there you go!
A user would have asked questions and got answers.
Yeah! Like telling the users they don't want feature really, that they're idiots for wanting it and all authors and users should rewrite old-fashioned software not to make it better to use but simply because Wayland doesn't support things like window placement that have been standard for 40 years.
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