Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:12:59 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1019610779.f50b76@mired.org> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <15551.28443.507235.182630@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020418053829.X96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> References: <20020418110814.A64286@lpt.ens.fr> <20020418053829.X96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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In <20020418053829.X96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org>, f.johan.beisser <jan@caustic.org> typed: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Actually, in common with many windows users, I just use alt-tab. KDE > > handles it very well (showing you the window titles in a non-intrusive > > way as you're cycling through them, so you can quickly hit the correct > > one), and sawfish/gnome is not bad either; in both cases it's much > > quicker than aiming a mouse pointer at the correct window, especially > > if you have a lot of open windows. Long time since I've used windows > > but my memory is that alt-tab isn't quite so nice there, though that > > key combination is I think a Microsoft invention. > i believe that the apple-tab key does the same thing, on MacOS. i don't > know how old the convention is, but it has spread to the point where just > about every window manager supports it now. there are still a couple > exceptions (blackbox, being one). That's a better way to do this, though I don't know of many window managers that use it. Quite a few can be convinced to give you a list of windows on a mouse click, then you select the one you want. The window manager I use - plpwm, in the plwm port - lets you invoke a list of windows - either all, or iconified, or visible - with a keystroke, then select one from the keyboard. I happen to have that bound to a two-keypress sequence to preserve most alt keys for my applications. That means I can activate any window in the system with three keystrokes, as opposed to two homing motions and a couple of clicks and pointing motions. Alt-tab and alt-backtab also work, along with alt-space for and alt-shift-space for rotating them. Finally, any of up to 9 visible windows can be activated with Control-digit. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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