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Gestures For The Linux Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-rude-gestures dept.

geoffsmith writes "Just stumbled upon a gesture system for the linux desktop called 'wayV'. It works similarly to Mozilla gestures, except at windowing system level. For example, hold down the middle mouse button and draw an 'N' and netscape pops up, or draw a slash through a window and it kills the window's process. There are .debs available and the author is currently porting it to win32."

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  1. Netscape by FrostedWheat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    draw an 'N' and netscape pops up

    People still use Netscape on Linux??

    Arh the Horror!

  2. Yeah... How About Useful Features Instead? by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess I thought this software always came with my distribution. I've been making a certain gesture at the Linux desktop for some time with no effect.

    Yeah.... thank you, thank you.

    How about some useful features instead? Integration between applications so that xine can play a video file from an Impress presentation, or any number of the other things Windows users take for granted that either don't work or aren't even under development for Linux.

    'Course, the important stuff is already taken care of. Linux applications crash more often that the Windows kernel, so we're good there. And with KDE's blistering speed, you'll approximate the lagged feeling of having a good Windows virus e-mailing all the doc files on your hard disk to everyone in your Outlook address book.

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    Fire and Meat. Yummy.