wrote:
> During the time you left Moz and the Desktop sorted
> itself, you were no
> longer in Moz. It no longer had the focus, so it
> had no chance to process
> your kestrokes or mouse clicks.
If it can't process them, how could it process errant
ones . . . assuming there were any ?
> The same is true
> when you click the Moz
> icon. There's a period of time between when you
> click on the icon until
> Moz gets keyboard and mouse focus.
Yes -- a split second.
> IAC, focus is not quite the static thing you seem to
> perceive it to be.
> Even when Moz has the focus, there are other apps
> that are looking at the
> keyboard and mouse clicks. If not things like
> Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab would
> not work.
O.K., so you're telling me that the running app does
not have total dibs on any keystrokes. I would not
have expected that, other than perhaps the couple
examples you cited, which are sort of universal
constants on our platform, much as similar ones exist
for Windoze.
> >Nor getting zapped by something at a website ? How
> >about some misfiring of the Scitech video drivers ?
> No and No. It's much easier to believe the Desktop
> received an errant RMB
> -> Arrange request.
Well -- esp. since this has happened a few times
before -- you are charting a confluence of
coincidence, and I just don't buy it.
> >O.K., but doesn't that have to be close to
> immediately
> >after the situation occurs ?
> No. Just before the next WPS shutdown which could
> be weeks later. The
> arrangement of the Desktop icons is one of the few
> things that is not
> saved until a WPS shutdown. This differs from
> things like the icon
> arrangement within other folders. These are saved
> shortly after they are
> done.
My (uncertain) recollection is that I tried this once
before in this situation, and it did NOT preserve the
pre-scrambled desktop. But I won't know for sure
until next time this comes up. When it does I'll
definitely try it and let you know what resulted.
Jordan
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