Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse

[Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com>]

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On Apr 24, 2012 10:21 AM, "Stephen Wiley" <swwiley@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Yaroslav wrote:
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> >> 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?
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> > The fast keys are mouse buttons, that's it. Just take it: once you get
> > used to it you'll feel allright about this.
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> 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.
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> 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).

I'm adding similar functionality to the windows alt-tab to my mod of Rio.
The function keys thing sounds cool though. Where is the source for that?

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Veety

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