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Holy cow! It's true! Well, one less gripe to go. I don't use IE much either,
but it' annoying to point the mouse to the address bar anytime I wanna go
somewhere like \\uranus\this\deep\down...
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> (I'm mildly annoyed that neither KDE nor GNOME default to opening the menu
> when you hit the Windows key. It would seem that adding that functionality
> would make it friendlier to Windows users, given that I don't think the
> Windows key is used for anything at all in either of those desktops.)
Yes, it's the most useless of all keys, as much as Scroll lock perhaps! ;)
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nemesis wrote:
> Yes, it's the most useless of all keys, as much as Scroll lock perhaps! ;)
I've actually used scroll lock on occasion. It's sysreq I've never had to
use. :-) That looked more like a function in search of a problem, to me.
Multi-task switching functionality hardcoded into the keyboard, immediately
followed by the release of Windows. Ouch. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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And lo On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:09:37 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
did spake thusly:
> And a link off that page says something about ALT+D being "select the
> text in the address bar" for IE. Try one or the other, and retrain your
> fingers. ;-)
Same for Firefox too, which is handy trick to know.
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Darren New wrote:
>
> The number of times Vista lets the focus get stolen is annoying too. XP
> was real good at that, and I understand Vista tries to prevent
> pop-unders or something by not letting you *not* steal the focus. Seems
> like the wrong answer, to me.
>
That one of the most annoying things with XP. Focus stealing, I mean.
It's not even rare that I'm writing something (at work), *some* pop-up
comes up and I have no idea what it said, since I just hit enter or
spacebar. IMO only the critical messages from OS should appear like that
and have OK-button disabled for 5 secs oslt, so they could be even
noticed before hitting enter. Of course configurability would be optimal
choice - let everyone choose what level of focus stealing they want.
-Aero
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nemesis wrote:
>
> search that keeps getting in the way... more than that, the previous shortcut
> worked perfectly fine, why drop it?
>
Or possibly... make it configurable?
-Aero
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Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Yes, it's the most useless of all keys, as much as Scroll lock
>> perhaps! ;)
Scroll lock is surprisingly useful - many KVM switches use it as the
change button when pressed twice ;).
> I've actually used scroll lock on occasion. It's sysreq I've never had
> to use. :-) That looked more like a function in search of a problem, to
> me. Multi-task switching functionality hardcoded into the keyboard,
> immediately followed by the release of Windows. Ouch. :-)
>
Linux has support for Magic SysRq keys. I don't know how deep in they
actually are, but usually if you get the system to a state that'll make
you want to do a hard reset (cutting power), AltGr*+SysRq+S (emergence
Sync) and AltGr+SysRq+B (reBoot) at least seems less cruel way to do things.
*) Yes, it demands AltGr, I just tested - my laptop has SysRq at Fn+Del,
so I need to AltGr+Fn+SysRq+S (in that order) to do the sync.
-Aero
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Linux has support for Magic SysRq keys.
So does Windows. So did DOS. :-) I think you have to be running a debug
console on the serial port for sysreq to do anything with Windows. But
basically the keycode does the same sort of magic "this isn't really a
keycode" that ctl-alt-delete does.
Frighteningly enough, I used to actually know the details of this crap.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> search that keeps getting in the way... more than that, the previous shortcut
>> worked perfectly fine, why drop it?
> Or possibly... make it configurable?
Make too much stuff configurable, and you wind up with Linux user friendliness.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> The number of times Vista lets the focus get stolen is annoying too. XP
>> was real good at that, and I understand Vista tries to prevent
>> pop-unders or something by not letting you *not* steal the focus. Seems
>> like the wrong answer, to me.
>>
>
> That one of the most annoying things with XP. Focus stealing, I mean.
Except you can turn that off at the window manager level, and it works
almost 100% of the time. With Vista, it works mainly when you didn't want
it to work in the first place, somehow.
> IMO only the critical messages from OS should appear like that
> and have OK-button disabled for 5 secs oslt, so they could be even
> noticed before hitting enter.
Yeah, firefox does this pretty well.
> Of course configurability would be optimal
> choice - let everyone choose what level of focus stealing they want.
It's ... already there. :-) There's even a parameter that says "if I haven't
typed in this many seconds, let apps steal the focus."
You might want to download TweakUI from Microsoft and look at all the stuff
it makes easy to configure.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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