Now most of you probably know about holding down the Command (Apple) key to drag a background window without bringing that window to the foreground. But you might not know about this…
I was waiting for a copy process to run one day and had Terminal open in the background, so I started fiddling as some would. I discovered that the Command key trick extends to selecting (at least text) and drag-and-dropping as well.
[robg adds:This hint describes some of the other things you can with the Command key and objects in background windows. I tested today’s tip and found that it worked as described as long as the background app (where you start dragging the text) was a Cocoa app. I could, for instance, hold Command and drag a selection in a background Terminal window, then Command-drag that text to either a Cocoa or …
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