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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


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