James G. Sack (jim)([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:13:22PM -0700: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: <snip> > > window. It's one of the things that I love about Quicksilver: > > splat-splat-f-enter gets me Firefox. splat-splat-t-enter gets me > > thunderbird, etc. <snip>
> That was entertaining .. I just went hunting and discovered that 'splat' > is a nickname for the apple "cmd" key (because of the cloverleaf symbol, > which looks like a bug-splat, maybe?). > > Are there nicknames for other keys? I have always heard "splat" used to refer to "asterisk". Mainframers do that a lot, anyway. It's a habit I've picked up. > Your keypad-positioning idea sounds really neat -- are there not people > who could take that suggestion and run with it? There are tiling window managers that work this way. Ratpoison is one, which has been superceded by StumpWM. I've not tried xmonad yet, but it's another. I've used my number pad to manipulate the mouse before in X. It was OK in a pinch when the mouse wasn't behaving, but not much more. I've been using StumpWM lately on my VPS, and I like it. I'm not keen on the keymappings being emacsish, but it's fast over the network and I don't have to reach for the rodent. It allows you to group windows and applications together, and other stuff I haven't played with yet. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
