On Friday 18 February 2005 05:25 am, Eben King wrote:
> 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)
Adding to Eben's comments, if you want to use the keyboard to FULL extent,
consider using UMENU/EMDL:
http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/umenu/index.htm
http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/projects/emdl/index.htm
UMENU works well with these window managers: Icewm, Sawfish, Gnome, KDE,
Enlightenment, fvwm2, and Fluxbox. It might work with others, but I've gotten
it to work with those.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org
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