From: Stephen Wiley <swwiley@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:21:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <686C428F-FB3E-4988-A2CE-70FE50ED8CD8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG3N4d9MDWvwto9QbYzXQNcb5-QwbJj9NznKKS5eXsk=LAHpHA@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Yaroslav wrote:
>> I have a question about keyboard and mouse interaction in the OS that
>> relates to fast keys available for the windows. Do any exist for use of say
>> windows switching, closing or any other operations for menus within plan 9?
>
> The fast keys are mouse buttons, that's it. Just take it: once you get
> used to it you'll feel allright about this.
>
I believe sl wrote a program that lets you group windows onto function keys (so pushing the function key for a window group will cycle through the windows) that's not part of the main distribution though.
If your having trouble with windows getting buried, winwatch will list open windows and let you switch between them with the mouse (this was an issue I had when I first started playing with plan9).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 8:21 Iain Watson Smith
2012-04-24 9:30 ` Yaroslav
2012-04-24 14:21 ` Stephen Wiley [this message]
2012-04-24 14:46 ` Matthew Veety
2012-04-24 15:10 ` sl
2012-04-24 15:28 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
[not found] ` <CAEAzY38bwMV4+pJhfkjfyH+DxS0WpePTiMOjaTvWBuKu9oGp+g@mail.gmail.c>
2012-04-24 15:42 ` sl
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