2008/6/21 Phlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> I see. You can put program and file shortcuts on a KDE panel, you >> know. I have one that pops up when the mouse meets the lower right >> screen corner and disappears after 3 seconds. > > "Lazy mouse" is an obsolete and broken PARC concept from the Dawn of Windows. > It's where you skate the mouse, don't click, and the keyboard focus jumps to > the > window under the mouse - sometimes without raising it. > > There are just so many reasons this is wrong. One of them is <Alt+Tab> might > _not_ change the keyboard focus, if the mouse cursor were in the "wrong" > place. > Most GUIs since the PARC research have not used lazy mouse.
Are you saying that Lazy Mouse was enabled without you explicitly enabling it? That is a bug. Maybe you clicked on the checkbox by accident? > In general, I needed a compiz configuration with this magic: > > - change not one of my usabilities By default it won't, for certain values of "usabilities". Please define "usabilities". > - do the eyecandy!! By default it will, assuming that you have a properly configured and capable graphics card. > - provide a View that lets me incrementally add the new usabilities, > one at a time That is the default. Unfortunately, you must install CCSM to really be able to tweak. > Compiz also had a terminal conflict with cairo-dock, but I ain't gonna write > that one up! > >> I prefer to seperate my metakeys by application level. My apps >> (firefox, open office) uses the Ctrl key, KDE uses the Alt key, and >> Compiz uses the Tux key. Why don't you want to use the *nix shortcuts? > > Very simply so I don't have to spend time researching what they are. I need > you > to imagine I am some student of computing, who has installed Ubuntu for the > very > first time. I know the Windows keystrokes, so (for example) I select the > installer's "Windows shortcuts" settings. > > I am no student, and I use custom keystrokes all the time. (Just yesterday I > wrote a script to delete the currently playing XMMS song.) Like you, I need > the > keystrokes to work together in coherent patterns. But I am not a compulsive > configurer, either... I have converted over 20 people from Windows to Linux, so I understand you. However, not one of them has been a big keyboard user, so I have not run into this problem. >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/ > > tx: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/241923 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/241925 > Nice. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
