Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In MS Windows, with the TAB key it is possible to move on the Desktop and > jump between small icons and to open and close windows. > > I don't detect such a feature in my Gnome graphic environment. > > Is it possible, in your experience, and how?, to reduce the use of > mouse the > most possible in X?
Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> writes: > You can activate the numeric keyboard to emulate the mouse, it's > somewhere in the Accessibility options. (Talking about Gnome, but KDE > should have something similar as well) Thanks. From Gnome Panel Menu, Desktop > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts , and there are all the key combinations to replace the use of mouse. Michael Ekstrand <mich...@elehack.net> writes: > If you want to radically minimize your mouse usage, there are several > window managers which are designed around heavy keyboard interaction and > window manipulation: > > - awesome > - XMonad > - ratpoison > - wmii > - StumpWM > - many more... > > The downside is that these typically have radically different > interaction models and window management philosophies than "traditional" > window managers and desktop environments such as Gnome. They also > typically don't have desktop icons, and panels are frequently rather > different from Gnome/KDE/Xfce panels. Thanks for the indications. I'd be curious to try one of those, and once I will. There's one thing though for which the mouse is probably necessary: when I do `Ctrl-mouse1' inside xdvi to get back to the TeX source file. Bye Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
