On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
Glen Peterson wrote:Last night there was brief moaning by people who wanted keybards without the Windows(tm) keys.
For many users, the easiest and cheapest way to get one is probably to go to the MIT Flea and buy an old keyboard -- one made long enough ago not to have Windows keys. That won't help if you need a USB keyboard, though, since they're mostly too new.
Of course, the even easier & even cheaper thing for all the people that aren't aghast at the prospect of using Windows is to just *learn to use the Windows key*. It's tremendously useful, really --
* [win]+[e] -- launches Windows Explorer * [win]+[r] -- opens a Run dialog window * [win]+[f] -- opens a search window * [win]+[d] -- minimize everything, show the desktop * [win] -- bring up the system menu from the taskbar
There's others too, that's just the ones I use all the time.
I resisted using the win-key for years, but now that I've given in, I'd never want to go back to using Windows without having that key, and it bugs me that Linux & OSX don't seem to have globally available system tools available with just a keystroke like that.
Of course, if you use Linux, then you can't use these functions and you've got bigger problems anyway (e.g. you're stuck with Linux :). In that case, ok, maybe the key is dead weight, but then, for most people, there are lots of dead weight keys: [SysReq], [Pause/Break], [Scroll Lock], most or all of the F-keys, any internet keys on keyboards so equipped, etc.
And yet, for whatever reason, no one ever complains about the useless [SysReq] key, or (the one that really bugs me) about the conspicuous absense of keys for basics [cut], [copy], and [paste].
And yet people have no trouble getting worked up over a perfectly useful key that just happens to be burdened with an annoying little advertising label on it.
Man, life's rough... :-)
-- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/
np: 'Theme From Hatari!'
by Henry Mancini
from 'The Best Of Mancini'
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