Also with XQuartz, you can set X11 windows to focus follows mouse in the Preferences > Window screen.
In addition one thing I've always missed is being able to lower the Z-order of a window to the bottom of the window stack by clicking on the middle (or third) mouse button on the window title bar.
Though neither mode is perfect in all situations, on balance I prefer focus-follows-mouse.
I do NOT care for copy-on-select, I like copy to be an explicit action. That way I can select, copy, select, paste to replace. With copy-on-select, you have to select, paste, select, delete which is less natural for me.
copy-on-select is great as long as the other clipboard still exists too (this is typically the case in linux). What is the downside, if you can still ctrl-c/ctrl-v to a separate clipboard?
Take a look at Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com). It's a command line driver and library manager for VirtualBox VMs. It's integrated with Chef and Puppet if automated provisioning is your thing.
I am. It is ridiculously slow. But I realized it is just a networking issue (hitting the host-only network from a browser on my Mac), so hopefully I can fix it.
Edit: Figured it out, DNS issue: sudo apt-get remove libavahi-common3
edit /etc/nsswitch to remove mdns from the list... that takes care of the issue and you can keep avahi for some of the other things it provides (such as automatic discovery of printers, and the likes).
Completely agreed. This is the one thing holding me back from fully switching from Linux to OS X. They seem like such minor things--it's amazing how big of a difference it makes not having them.
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
Also with XQuartz, you can set X11 windows to focus follows mouse in the Preferences > Window screen.
In addition one thing I've always missed is being able to lower the Z-order of a window to the bottom of the window stack by clicking on the middle (or third) mouse button on the window title bar.