Help with little usability issues

[picnic]

So I'm coming from pretty much a life of Windows but I bought a 2021 MBPro M1 last Autumn and to the most part I'm very happy. However there are a couple of things that irritate me and I'm wondering what the experts recommend.

There seems to be an inconsistency when clicking on a Window that doesn't have focus. Most require you to click the Window to give it focus and then click again on the Window Element (button/cursor position etc) to action it. For some reason the default calculator gets focus and actions the mouse click all in one. I'd like the whole system to operate in the way calculator does. Is this possible?

I've also invested in the Magic Keyboard with all the extra keys. What is the recommended way to remap the Start/End Document keys to instead do Start/End of line? I'm struggling to wean myself off pressing the end of document when I mean end of line.

TIA

 

[HACO]

It's called click-through in macOS and it's up to the application to enable it or not. Some do and some don't, depending on the decision made by the developers. This is to avoid unwanted consequential interactions with background software. This is also how some Linux distros behave.

There's no way to globally enable it everywhere, but some apps have the option to enable it within the app settings. There are some utilities that change the focus as you move the mouse around, aka going from Click-to-focus to Focus-follows-mouse mode. that is the workaround. There are a lot of them. I haven't tried any of them but if you search the relevant keywords you'll find them.

A simple way to go away with this need entirely is to use spaces and use apps in full or split screen mode, where this gets handled automatically.


To make key bindings work like windows. I do however recommend just doing it the macOS way, it's faster once you're used to it.
https://damieng.com/blog/2015/04/24/make-home-end-keys-behave-like-windows-on-mac-os-x

 

[picnic]

Thanks for the feedback, most of the time I use a 49" ultrawide monitor as I need to view datasheets and the like while using the development tools. Having a Finder window or two are also useful. I'll check the app settings and failing that I'll look in to the split screen mode or investigate one of the Window management tools in Feek's apps thread.

For me it's never going to be quicker to press 2 keys rather than one Thanks for the link though. For confusion Atom, by default, remaps the Home-End keys.