From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 18 5:41:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF82837B416 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3ICf6k23462; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:41:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mike Meyer , Giorgos Keramidas , Bob Bomar , Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd In-Reply-To: <20020418110814.A64286@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: <20020418053829.X96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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). -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message