Questions tagged [focus]
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Portable Screen Capture App [duplicate]
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Can anyone recommend a simple screenshot tool that can be installed as a portable app?
... that quickly facilitates the de-focusing of inverted selections (I.e., Capture ...
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Portable Screen Capture App [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can anyone recommend a simple screenshot tool that can be installed as a portable app?
... that quickly facilitates the de-focusing of inverted selections (I.e., Capture ...
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Is there a way to set Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 to dictate to an unfocused application?
Does anyone know of a way in which to instruct Dragon to remain focused on a designated application regardless of its focus status instead of following focus changes? The primary use case we have is ...
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Why does the task pictogram flashes instead of opening the program?
Sometimes, when I select a click a program on the Windows 7 taskbar it won't appear (it doesn't gain focus and remains behind other open windows), and the icon will flash and turn orange. This happens ...
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Multiple desktops in Windows
I'm running a program that uses WatiN to automate file uploads to different websites. I currently run it on a machine that I remote into via the standard Remote Desktop Connection in Windows - once I ...
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Stop taskeng.exe window from popping up
I have several processes scheduled in my Windows 7 environment, mainly for backups, that are supposed to run in the background.
However instead of just doing it's work quietly in the background, the ...
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Hide all application windows except a specified one on OS X
Is there a free and stable solution satisfying this kind of need and preferably having a menu bar to let the user to exclude a particular app?
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Windows 7: Disable applications stealing focus
Is there any way to prevent specific programs from stealing window focus in Windows 7?
Windows 7 doesn't have the option of using PowerToys' TweakUI, which has been suggested in the past for stopping ...
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Windows 7 Explorer - Activate mouse focus to be able to scroll in tree and file view?
I'd like to be able to scroll in the tree view without having to click in it. Is there a way to do this?
I have once used a tool that generally gives focus to the window underneath the mouse cursor, ...
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Flash overrides Firefox keyboard shortcuts -- how to turn that off?
I often cycle through my Firefox tabs using Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. But whenever it reaches a tab that is running a Flash (or similar) plugin, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab won't work anymore, ...
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Prevent a repeatedly running console program from taking focus
I'm running windows 7. Every 10 seconds, a script will run that will send a popup command line box and close at the end of the script.
In the meantime, when I'm using other applications, I am ...
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KDE 4.5: Focus on scroll
With KDE 3.5 windows always got focus as soon as I scrolled over them but with KDE 4.x this doesn't seem to be possible.
At the Focus settings I only see the policies "Click to focus", "Focus Follows ...
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How to start a virtual keyboard without losing focus in Windows XP?
I need to start a virtual keyboard from my application (namely click-n-type) to allow user input in the active field.
When I use the start click-n-type.exe the keyboard starts normally but I lose ...
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Confirm form resubmission dialog in IE8 doesn't have focus
When the "Confirm form resubmission" dialog comes up (after pressing F5 refresh) in certain sites, I used to just press Enter or the space bar and it would hit enter.
In IE8, the dialog box doesn't ...
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Mac OS X: finder window keeps opening by itself and stealing focus
I have a Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11 here, with an annoying problem. After starting the computer and logging in, the finder keeps stealing focus. You can go back to your working app, but a minute ...
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