Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:41:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1019525830.931e6a@mired.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <20020418053829.X96787-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <20020418110814.A64286@lpt.ens.fr>
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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
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