Re: [Inkscape-user] Engraver's Toolbox in Linux (bulia byak)
Thanks, Donn!
OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter?
You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff.
Sorry 'bout that.
/d
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:12:08PM +0200, Donn wrote:
Thanks, Donn!
OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter?
You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff.
I wish people would rise up in arms and convince those two windows managers to stop stealing an entire meta-key for one mostly useless function. Incidentally, it is under Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Window Actions for KWin (KDE).
Jeff
I wish people would rise up in arms and convince those two windows managers to stop stealing an entire meta-key for one mostly useless function.
Agreed.
Incidentally, it is under Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Window Actions for KWin (KDE).
Hey, damn! I knew it was *somewhere*, thanks :)
I love KDE, but the settings are all over the map. Crazy.
/d
Actually, I find myself using that function quite a lot. Especially if I get one of those windows that won't resize or part of it ends up below the task bar. I also used to have this old monitor that the top third would do weird things until it warmed up. I could grab windows and drag them low enough on the screen to work on.
--- Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:12:08PM +0200, Donn wrote:
Thanks, Donn!
OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter?
You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff.
I wish people would rise up in arms and convince those two windows managers to stop stealing an entire meta-key for one mostly useless function. Incidentally, it is under Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Window Actions for KWin (KDE).
Jeff
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On 4/14/07, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote:
Actually, I find myself using that function quite a lot. Especially if I get one of those windows that won't resize or part of it ends up below the task bar. I also used to have this old monitor that the top third would do weird things until it warmed up. I could grab windows and drag them low enough on the screen to work on.
But you can set up the window manager to steal Alt *only* for clicks on the window frame and then it's just as useful for those situations. It doesn't need to steal Alt for the client area too.
--bb
--- Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:12:08PM +0200, Donn wrote:
Thanks, Donn!
OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter?
You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff.
I wish people would rise up in arms and convince those two windows managers to stop stealing an entire meta-key for one mostly useless function. Incidentally, it is under Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Window Actions for KWin (KDE).
Jeff
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Is that the case for all window managers, or just KDE/Gnome. I pefer XFCE4 and occasionally use Fluxbox and Windowmaker.
--- Bill Baxter <wbaxter@...155...> wrote:
On 4/14/07, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote:
Actually, I find myself using that function quite a lot. Especially if I get one of those windows that won't resize or part of it ends up below the task bar. I also
used to
have this old monitor that the top third would do weird things until it warmed up. I could grab windows and drag them low enough on the screen to work on.
But you can set up the window manager to steal Alt *only* for clicks on the window frame and then it's just as useful for those situations. It doesn't need to steal Alt for the client area too.
--bb
--- Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:12:08PM +0200, Donn wrote:
Thanks, Donn!
OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter?
You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff.
I wish people would rise up in arms and convince those two windows managers to stop stealing an entire meta-key for one mostly useless function. Incidentally, it is under Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Window Actions for KWin (KDE).
Jeff
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On 4/15/07, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote:
Is that the case for all window managers, or just KDE/Gnome. I pefer XFCE4 and occasionally use Fluxbox and Windowmaker.
I don't know but it recall it was possible in the 90's with FVWM, so I would expect any window manager worth its salt these days could be configured so that Alt click was only a WM command on window frames and not on the client area.
--bb
Donn escribió:
Thanks, Donn!
OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter?
You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff.
Sorry 'bout that.
/d
And it is just that what I most dislike about that DE... I don't hate it as such, and I really like it, but the amount of clutter is simply too much.
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