On 9/23/13, Xue Fuqiao <xfq.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: >> On 9/22/13, Xue Fuqiao <xfq.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'd like to customize keys in Debian. I want to set f2/f3/f4/f8 to >>> cut/copy/paste/switch-applications. For switching applications, I tried >>> setting f8 in Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Navigation, but it >>> didn't help; neither Alt+Tab nor f8 worked after that change. >> >> Gnome3 I can't help you sorry. >> >>> I searched the web and found IronAHK. I haven't tried it, but it is >>> unmaintained. Relying on unmaintained softwares isn't a good idea. I >>> also found (and tried) xbindkeys and xdotool, but I can't get them to >>> work. >> >> xdotool I use to have a keyboard key provide a mouse click for me. >> Very useful. Probably would not work to switch applications. May be >> Gnome3 is the problem for you? I don't know sorry. > > Would you please share how to do cut/copy/paste by xdotool (if you > know)? Thank you.
All I do is select text using normal mouse, then move mouse to where I want to paste, then I can middle click, or use my keyboard xdotool assignment to "click the middle mouse" where I just placed the cursor. Sometimes this is more efficient that clicking actual mouse button for paste. It's not very fancy, but I like it and use it here and there - left hand for mouse movement and left and right clicks, right hand for keyboard and middle clicks. When I use LibreOffice Writer for word processing documents, I use mouse to choose location if it's far away from where I am now, then use keyboard for selection, and cut or copy: CTLR-RightArrow to move a word at a time to right CTLR-SHIFT-RightArrow to increase selection by a word at a time to right SHIFT-RightArrow to increase selection by a char at a time to right and similarly etc.. Good luck Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSTMrkN8zTOV1xyT62ELTMjZR=xb-_iqx_emy1t1sv1...@mail.gmail.com
