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Welcome our new forums! « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly? — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:57:00 +0000

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Comment on Mouse shortcuts with xbindkeys by Hans

Hans — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:41:03 +0000

@Zoffix Znet:

No worries; I’m glad that you solved the issue by yourself. If you’re still curious about the xte issue, you can post the part from .xbindkeysrc here so I can look at it. (My initial guess would be problems with ‘ and ” characters.)

Comment on Mouse shortcuts with xbindkeys by Zoffix Znet

Zoffix Znet — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:37:42 +0000

Sorry for comment spam, but I made it work with dbus after finding the dbus string with dbus-monitor.

To active the cube I used this tring: “qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.invokeShortcut Cube”

Awesome guide! Thanks so much!

Comment on Mouse shortcuts with xbindkeys by Zoffix Znet

Zoffix Znet — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:27:55 +0000

It gets even weired. If I modify my script to call xterm first, then xte works after I close xterm… :S :S :S what’s going on ? :/

Comment on Mouse shortcuts with xbindkeys by Zoffix Znet

Zoffix Znet — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:18:31 +0000

I seems to be the only unlucky one here. Trying to bing a Alt+Mouse button 2 to bring the desktop cube…

If I specify “xterm” as a command to run, it works fine, but when I use xte, it does nothing.

I even went and created a script and placed xte command in it; if I run the script the command works, but not when I trigger it through xbindkeys.

Any idea on what’s wrong?

Comment on Hide window border for maximized windows by Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Ritesh Raj Sarraf — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:43:01 +0000

Just awesome…. Thank you for writing this. I today had deleted my .kwinrc settings and had a hard time recollecting how to enable this.

Comment on Hide window border for maximized windows by KDE: Maximierte Fenster ohne Deko » startafire

KDE: Maximierte Fenster ohne Deko » startafire — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:36:07 +0000

[...] Ich nutze seit einiger Zeit ein KWin-Feature, welches meine maximierten Fenster ohne Dekorationen (Ränder, Titelleiste) anzeigt. Ich habe mich bisher immer einem Setting in meiner kwinrc bedient, wie hier beschrieben. [...]

Comment on Dvorak – Two years later, was it worth it? by Ross

Ross — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:30:17 +0000

I should also add that one-handed hunt-and-peck was a horrendous torture…I have been touch-typing since teaching it to myself in elementary school back when typewriters were still in use! That’s what drove me to try and quickly learn the one-handed layout when I had only one hand available for usage. The one-handed Dvorak had definitely shown promise had I required it further…it is an entirely different layout (a bit more logical for some keys, IMO).

Comment on Dvorak – Two years later, was it worth it? by Ross

Ross — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:23:55 +0000

I am actually considering the use of a hotkey mapping utility to be able to use common shortcuts in conjunction with the mouse.

Right as I switched to Dvorak full-time, I ended up breaking my arm at the elbow (7 weeks ago). I was back on the keyboard with 2 hands after a few weeks but didn’t switch back to Dvorak until this week. Surprisingly. the brain retained almost the entire layout save a few special keys, and speed dropped back from about 40 to about 35 wpm. Now, I’ve resumed the quest toward my qwerty speed (incidentally, I can not currently complete a qwerty speed test…I keep switching to Dvorak when I attempt to do so!). The biggest issue I noticed with the Dvorak down-time was the considerable drop in accuracy that I’ve been overcoming again as my brain remaps Dvorak/Qwerty layouts again.

One other note of interest…during the two weeks I was strictly one-handed, I had attempted the one-handed dvorak layout and learned about 2/3 of the letters in that period…speed was very slow and it is quite a stretch for small hands like mine, but it was a rather fascinating experiment and I think I could have achieved basic proficiency in another week or so, though speed would have taken much longer…the fingers had to travel a considerably longer distance to “roll” from letter to letter.

Comment on Dvorak – Two years later, was it worth it? by Bill

Bill — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:21:43 +0000

The best way to master the Qwerty keyboard shortcuts under Dvorak is to just think and type them.

Sadly you’ll loose the benefits of being able to mouse with your right, and do the shortcuts with your left hand. This only suits a right hander anyway.

If you are a left hander, you can use the CTRL/SHIFT Insert/Delete combos instead.

If it’s a real pain, OSX let’s you run Dvorak but with the regular keyboard shortcuts, pressing the modifier in effect flips the layout. You might be able to do the same kind of thing on other OSs.

Probably by fluke, but Q and W fall above the command keys on an Apple, which is handy for closing tabs and windows.

Chording on one hand might cause some strain.

Some other alternative layouts keep the zxcv keys in the same spot (Qwerty)m ainly for this reason.