by Coming from a rather hardcore X11 background (mm, X10 with b/w displays), my adjustment to Life With Mac has been made much easier recently with the installation of a utility called Zooom/2. [2] Although it can’t (yet) bind my X11 finger-macro of alt+mouse2+move to window-move, it can bind it to any combination of modifier keys, defaulting to command+shift+move. window-resize is bound to option+shift+move.
Along with autoraise and focus-follows-mouse capabilities, this utility has already earned a permanent spot in my essential Mac folder.
A small dampener: There’s still a few bugs or design interactions lurking about, especially when combining autoraise, focus-follows-mouse and Spaces. Focus can shift bizarrely to another space when least expected, and some applications get upset about abrupt resizes and can abort. The developer has been quick to respond to my bugs reports thou, so I currently have hopes that these issues can be addressed.
hope this helps someone out there,
–Chan
[1] “What noise annoys an oyster? Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.”
[2] Zooom/2
[3] yes, [1] was in an earlier draft. 🙂