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>One of my favorite features that has come to Windows 10 is the ability to scroll an inactive window. Prior to Windows 10, and assuming you were not running a third party utility which enabled this, in order to scroll a window you had to first select it.

The author might be referring to KatMouse[0] here. It a fantastic little program, always one of my first installs when I roll out a new system.

[0] http://ehiti.de/katmouse/




Another option is: Windows has had built-in support for focus-follows-mouse since at least Windows 2000. (Enabling it means that keyboard input also goes to the window under the cursor, natch. But I prefer that: I find it dramatically reduces the amount of clicking I do.)

Focus-follows-mouse can be enabled by editing the registry, or using a utility such as the (small) xmouse-controls: https://github.com/joelpurra/xmouse-controls.


Yeah, Katmouse, after using OSX, is one of the things I MUST have. Now I need to find a Popclip (osx) for Windows.




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