[GRLUG] Deskop Managers

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:23:16PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
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> *I* use wmii (and I'm the one who mentioned it), but it has a learning
> curve.  The first time you run it, it'll pop up a list of all the
> keyboard shortcuts.  Here's a starter course:
> 
> On my system, META is the left Alt key.
> 
> META-p -- Start a program.  Hit META-p and type the command-line name
> of the program.
> META-l -- Switch focus to the window on the right
> META-SHIFT-l -- move window to the right
> META-k - Switch focus to the window above
> META-SHIFT-k move the window up
> META-j - Switch focus to the window below
> META-SHIFT-j move the window down
> META-j - Switch focus to the window to the left
> META-SHIFT-j - Move window to the left
> META-? - Switch view to virtual screen "?" where ? is a number
> META-SHIFT-? - Move window to virtual screen "?" where ? is a number
> META-SHIFT-(space) - Move window to free mode layer (behaves somewhat
> like windows do in GNOME, KDE or Windows)
> META-(left click) - Drag window in free mode layer around
> META-(right click) - Resize window in free mode layer

I *knew* it was only a matter of time before the emacs developers added
a gui!

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