Re: Request for window manager recommendations

From: Jochen Schulz (ml_at_well-adjusted.de)
Date: 06/14/05

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    Steve C. Lamb:
    > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:01:33PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
    > > Me neither. I have under twenty keyboard shortcuts (all
    > > Win+single-character and most of them mnemonics) for the apps that I use
    > > most often.
    >
    > Ye gads. Never understood that fetish as surely one will eventually step
    > on some application's keys or an un-intentional key combo. Like, for example,
    > having ALT mapped to some function in a first person shooter and then hitting
    > TAB to access another function and suddenly be staring at the desktop. :D

    Never had a problem with that. It's only Gnome and IceWM that I have
    sometimes seen fighting who may catch the keypresses. But well, as I
    have already predicted, I ditched Gnome just yesterday.

    > > Well, to start gui programs I do not have a keyboard shortcut for, I
    > > just hit Win-Space and IceWM gives me a little command line. It couldn't
    > > be much easier.
    >
    > That's new. :D

    I think it was already there when I started using IceWM (~4 years ago)!
    Unfortunately, it lacks Tab-completion and history. What I like is that
    when you finish the command with Ctrl-Enter the command is started
    inside a terminal. Very handy for things like 'top'.

    > > I think one big difference between our usage patterns is that I prefer to
    > > use the keyboard for every action.
    >
    > Careful, you're assuming a lot of my usage habits. So says I writing this
    > in vim to be handled by mutt while inside a GNOME terminal on my laptop
    > connected to my server at home. :P

    I am using PuTTY ssh'ing to my home machine running a screen session
    with mutt and vim. :-P

    > > That may not sound user friendly but it's very efficient, especially when I
    > > use my laptop (which is 99% of the time I spend using a computer outside of
    > > my workplace). I guess if I used my desktop always with a mouse in the rigth
    > > hand, I would prefer configuration via a gui too.
    >
    > I just don't see how the miniscule efficiencies amount to much of anything
    > when they are negated by odd quirks elsewhere. In the time it takes to fire
    > up a CLI, editor and edit a text file to add a menu item I can do it far
    > faster with the nipple and rmb even if my hands dare to leave the home row.

    Well then, it's obviously just a matter of taste and we should stop
    arguing. :-)

    J. 

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