On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 12:50, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="James Gregory"> > > > I'm running it now and I feel like I'm using a mac again. > > Heh... Good, good. :-) > > I've answered all of these assuming you're using the Mandrake default GNOME > window manager, Metacity.
yep, it's using metacity. > > > 1. How do I make the extra keys on my logitech internet keyboard thing > > work? (They work in window maker -- you just make menu items for the > > actions and then assign hotkeys to them which you can capture from the > > keyboard) > > Tough one, atm. Metacity doesn't have user-defined keybinding support yet, > though you can customise the existing ones. Bastien Nocera (hadess) has > written 'acme', a user daemon that grabs multimedia keycodes, originally > designed for the iBook special keys. He's intending to make it handle > fully customisable and user-definable shortcuts, but it hasn't happened yet. alrighty. I just did a quick freshmeat search and it found a program called hotkeys which I had immense amounts of trouble building previously, but it seems that it's now in cooker. I'll see how I go with that. > > > 2. What's the hotkey to switch workspaces? active applications? > > Ctrl-Alt-(Left/Right/Up/Down) to change workspaces. (Shift-)Alt-Tab to change > windows. Neither of those are working. I should probably also mention that I've had the gnome-panel thing die several times in this session. Is that likely to have destroyed its ability to see the keyboard? > > > 3. What's the hotkey to maximize/minimize windows? > > > > 4. How do I find out hotkeys? (clicking help in random places gives me > > error messages - is it on the web somewhere?) > > See the Keyboard Shortcuts control panel for all of these. Had a look there -- I thought that was the obvious place. My keyboard shortcuts has only got: Desktop Window Management Under Action, and I can't see how to set the "Shortcut" thing. Is this because I'm doing it through the menus and not using nautilus? > > > > 5. I have xmms running, and it's supposed to be on all desktops (the > > "sticky" option is set), but it's not -- I assume that gnome needs to be > > told this through some special mechanism, but I can't see it (there's no > > title bar) > > If you're running metacity, the 'Put on all workspaces' entry in the window > menu should do it. ahh ok. And I just discovered you get this menu on titlebar-less windows by alt-right-clicking -- in WM that's the way I resize windows. Is there an equivalent metacity thing to do that? > > > 6. How do I make it so my break key will open a new xterm? > > Needs user-defined keybinding support. Pretty sure Sawfish will handle this for > you, however. hmmm. sawfish is what turned me off gnome in the first place. I had no idea of how to drive the control panels in that. I'll see if hotkeys can do I want it to. Thanks for the help, Jeff. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
