Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] Ignore mouse and include dialogue windows

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:36:24 -0700

On Oct 19, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Pedro Rodriguez <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The no mouse movement when the panel is onscreen

You need a couple hidden prefs to do that ... 

Disable Witch, quit System Preferences, open Terminal, and paste any of these (or all of these) as you wish:

defaults write ~/Library/Application\ Support/Witch/Settings "Ignore Mouse Movement" -bool YES
defaults write ~/Library/Application\ Support/Witch/Settings "Ignore Mouse Clicks" -bool YES
defaults write ~/Library/Application\ Support/Witch/Settings "Ignore Scroll Wheel" -bool YES

To reverse, repeat the process but change YES to NO. Restart Witch, and you should be mouse-free.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Pedro Rodriguez <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:38:13 -0700 (PDT)

On Sunday, September 21, 2014 3:29:40 PM UTC-7, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Pedro Rodriguez <[email-masked] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
>
> > Was this feature ever implemented? I don't seem to find it on the Witch 
> prefpane, but am hoping to do exactly what the OP wants. 
>
> Do you mean no mouse movement when the panel is onscreen, or do you mean 
> control over popup windows that don't have titles, etc? 
>
> regards, 
> -rob.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 15:29:37 -0700

On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Pedro Rodriguez <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Was this feature ever implemented? I don't seem to find it on the Witch prefpane, but am hoping to do exactly what the OP wants.

Do you mean no mouse movement when the panel is onscreen, or do you mean control over popup windows that don't have titles, etc?

regards,
-rob.

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From: Pedro Rodriguez <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:38:28 -0700 (PDT)

On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 11:42:25 AM UTC-7, crayolon wrote:
>
> Mouse thing - good stuff! Window thing - fair enough. When I come 
> across examples of excluded windows, I'll post them here. I don't 
> *think* they're Inspector windows, but I don't know enough about OS 
> X's innards to be certain 
>
> Cheers! 
> /brendan 
>
> On Sep 6, 7:14 pm, Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]> wrote: 
> > On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:57 PM, crayolon wrote: 
> > 
> > > but I'd rather the Witch window selection was exclusively under the 
> > > control of my cmd+tabbing hand and didn't get interrupted by something 
> > 
> > We have this on our list for a future update. 
> > 
> > > OS X popups. I can't recall specific examples right now, but if you 
> > 
> > Specific examples would help, but if those windows aren't real "windows" 
> but are more like palettes (i.e. Inspector windows), they'll be invisible 
> to Witch and there's nothing we can do about it. 
> > 
> > regards, 
> > -rob.

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From: crayolon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:42:25 -0700 (PDT)

Cheers!
/brendan

On Sep 6, 7:14 pm, Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Specific examples would help, but if those windows aren't real "windows" but are more like palettes (i.e. Inspector windows), they'll be invisible to Witch and there's nothing we can do about it.
>
> regards,
> -rob.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:14:24 -0700

regards,
-rob.

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From: crayolon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:57:47 -0700 (PDT)

Hi there,

For the most part, I'm pretty chuffed with Witch - thanks! I really
wish, however, that I could disable mouse selection when the menu is
visible. The beauty of Witch is that I can scurry between vast numbers
of windows with ease, and though I like to avoid the mouse wherever
possible, it's often the case that I'm moving the mouse from one place
to another for one purpose while switching windows for some other
purpose. If that makes sense...I'm talking split-second stuff here,
but I'd rather the Witch window selection was exclusively under the
control of my cmd+tabbing hand and didn't get interrupted by something
the mouse happens to be doing. I guess a tick-box option in the prefs
would do the trick nicely - 'Disable Mouseover Selection'.

Secondly, I've noticed quite a few dialogue boxes popping up that
Witcher hasn't been including in its selector - a real pain when I'm
trying to avoid mouse use and keep my ninja speed up :) They're not
just custom dialogue boxes in non-Apple apps either, some of them are
OS X popups. I can't recall specific examples right now, but if you
need them I'll try to replicate some of the situations. So basically
what I'm asking is: is that just an insoluble fact of life, that some
UI behaviour specific to certain apps will cause its dialogue boxes to
be invisible to Witch, or would it be possible to get finer-grain
control over types of windows that are displayed?

Thanks in advance,

/brendan