User: kinzler

vshnu - file manager / shell enhancement

On: The Latest And Greatest Console Applications?

In the area of console file managers and CLI shell enhancements, there's vshnu, the new visual shell. vshnu @freshmeat

Vshnu is a visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right. Best used as an optional color visual mode to a regular command line shell, vshnu is handy for powerful directory listing and navigation, Unix command assembly, special actions on file types, and fileset handling.

Yeah, this is a shameless plug.

1000 Minds high ambition

On: What Accessibility Options Exist for Unix?

Don't forget Alan Carter's remarkable 1000 Minds project, intended even for the severly handicapped:

The 1000 Minds software makes it possible to control all of the thousands of existing programs available for Linux with no more than a single detectable movement.

http://www.supportwizard.com/1000Minds/
http://www.melloworld.com/otm

Here's a mouse-minimized CTWM-based X environment

On: On Using X w/o the Rodent

I'm pretty mousophobic myself (for the pleasure of the keyboard's efficiency), and use X11 intensely, and so have developed an environment that pretty much lets me leave the mouse alone if I want, except within Netscape (and other mouse-dependent apps) and when cutting and pasting text in xterms. ctwm is the window manager. Code is at

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~ kinzler/home.html#etc/ctwmrc