Re: {SPAM?} Re: [flalug] {SPAM?} 1st post

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 05:25:44 EST


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Chad Perrin wrote:

> Khepri wrote:
>
> > So the people writing programs for X-windows are leaving the keyboard
> > shortcuts out?
>
> Not at all. I don't think that's what he meant to say. In fact, you
> can generally make quite extensively personalized keyboard shortcuts
> work on your system in most window managers. If you're going to use the
> mouse, though, it's a good idea to have one with three buttons because
> you'll be forced to switch back and forth between input devices a lot
> more if your mouse only has two (or, heaven forfend, one button).

I set up FVWM to use lots of keyboard commands, and I prefer to use
text-based apps in an xterm-equivalent (versus mouse-based apps), so I don't
have to use the mouse that much. Also, I keep apps that I'm often flipping
between in the same relative place on two virtual desktops, so I can just
move between them (alt up/down) and not have to move the mouse. Then again,
I'm not running KDE or Gnome.

"A mouse is a device used to focus xterms." (unknown, quoted by
satyap at satyaonline dot cjb dot net)

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