I agree with the strong impact it would bring, 'fire up them rockets boys, we're going to Titan'
Can we hook up a waterskiing bot to it for MAXIMUM effect? Maybe the GenX kids with their love of extreme sports (freestyle boarding/skiing, mountain biking whatever) would become the future explorers or even engineers. Hell there won't be rocks to slow this thing down. And don't forget a possible epilog: let it sink and shoot out a couple more snapshots at us; who knows, something could be blinking down there.
At work we had a 12 cup pot, and I'd prepare the coffee when I needed a fix and the pot was empty. But I can't wait for the *entire* pot to fill, so an officeworker showed me this trick of putting my coffee mug directly under the spout as soon as it started dripping. After getting my mug out, I put the carafe in. Man, considering i got "extra virgin" 12x power, you could guess I was bouncing around in the IT department. And the rest of the department? I don't know if they noticed the coffee was not the usual strength...
I'm surprised that a lot of folks aren't aware of Busybox, it's been on nearly every install CD or live CD I've ever tried. Man, does that count as having read the F'in manual? Y'know that you hit Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 to troubleshoot an installation, or something...
Or maybe Linux has reached mainstream level already, and few people ever even dare press Alt-F2... All I'm missing now is a low UID...
...as I rode shotgun with the tow truck driver and listened to his GPS on the dash giving him the directions to my house. There was no way he could cheat me about the mileage to my house. Granted the language that the gadget's feminine voice spoke was one I didn't readily understand (for most people, Miami is South America j/k), and I doubt that man and woma--err, machine were conspiring to bill me excess $$ for that short trip, but I remembered to glare at the driver anyway, in case he even entertained the very *idea* of taking the longer way round.
and even the most intelligent fellow is liable to the ocassional episode of stupidity
That was only the *one* time, I told you. Jeez, cut me some slack will ya. Well, since you've been most gracious in not mentioning my name, I won't be the spelling Nazi right now, and we'll call it even. In fact, to top it off, on Monday I will even pretend you didn't even make this post.
Honey, let's go. I gave that curator teen $20 to make sure that packet loss lasts for hours till we finish the movie...think he's going to explain ISPs and technical difficulties later...
It's something I have in e17. If that one has it, I'm sure the other WMs have it as well (may be hidden and have to be dug up). The WMs seem to follow some rules (EWMH?) and almost at the same time.
I found Push to do what I want, it will jump to either an empty space or the screen/monitor edge.
Sweet! Life in e is shall we say, Excellent. It can even shade windows left or shade windows right. I might run out of keys to bind some more.
There are two ways, one is called Push L/R, the other is Move by..., in which he can set a value to his liking (X/ Y coordinates). Now just bind them to a key combo and one is set.
But I enjoyed looking thru the different ways people use their desktops, and what limitations they've faced and had to overcome. This is probably the most 'gathering' of multimonitor fans to come to a discussion. I was suprised to find a kindred soul wondering why the framebuffer in such setups can't be made to tile or split across multihead setups without using Xwindows.
But seriously now, there might be a 'Clicking on a window always raises it' paired with 'Switching focus raises window' but I make sure to UNcheck the first one. If e16 and e17 have that (and e16 used to come with GNOME) then GNOME probably has that somewhere. Then its just a matter of combining those focus options to suit the way you work. Gosh I really hope they've retained that, what if that was the last straw that caused Linus to switch to KDE...j/k
In nvidia its the @ setting (I posted this above elsewhere). Warning though, it introduces panning on that screen that was smaller, but omitting this gets you back to square 1. LCD/DFP was shorter than CRT on the right, but now both are equally 1024 tall. Feel free to try it out, but keep sharp objects away if the panning gets to be a major distraction. The good news is, Mister E area, he can't hide from you no more.
He's not actually talking about multi-desktop, he's talking about multi-screen. He wants to use the keyboard to move a window to another physical monitor, not another virtual desktop.
And even though I have responded with my preference, I am taken aback at the question. Alt-Space gets to most titlebars menus, like I think an Ubuntu user has posted, and options to resize and move windows appear.
I think it has to do with making the display a 'rectangular' workspace, then randr might work. Like my widescreen is shorter than the CRT on the right, so this @ option in device 'equalizes' their height to 1024 (it introduces panning, though, on the left, and omitting it blocks out anything that spills into that area, i.e. a really wide dock). My third monitor got fried so I am not able to check out an L-shaped config but that I would make a huge square. Then randr might work; I was happy that X kicked in that I never even bothered checking, after using nvidia's config tool and a couple of old xorg.conf backups from my previous installs. glxinfo showed me all I needed to know.
Elive CD, and if your graphics card GPU is nvidia, its friendly enough. It's got keyboard/binding customizability (if thats a cromulant word), more than your fair share, too. Near-useless keys can do more useful things for you, e.g. I've turned mine into a multimedia keyboard almost. As for swapping windows between workspaces, I simply nail them to a desktop (say Desktop 2 for browsing, Desktop 3 for rss, etc) and two keys side by side that are bound to Switch Desktop Left / Right, so it's more 'Switch to this desktop' instead of swapping contents. And when ecomorph/compiz is on, the cube spins in the correct direction. Devel elive is stable enough for casual everyday use, as long as 'casual' doesn't involve terms like 'breathing apparatus' or 'intensive care'.
E16 has a beautiful pager that provided HIGH QUALITY snapshots of each desktop, in miniature. I have never seen anything like it. You will never get lost. A slew of themes are in efflux.org iirc, but they look kinda dated.
Cue the critics. But it's one of those things, you'll love it or hate it after a few minutes. But I hate FisherPrice candy-colored fruity desktop icons and taskbars more than most people.
You know this sh*t happened in real life. The unfortunate part was, it was in a certain room in a hospital back in my country. No matter what disease, they couldn't figure out why the patients succumbed, as it were, to their illness. These contract janitors would clean up one day of the week. In this room, there was no other outlet for the vacuum cleaner, so you can guess what he would do, not thinking of dire consequences.
Is that your real UID? AND you shared photos that *you* took of the Shuttle?! You sir, for Slashdot, are The Right Stuff!/me, an ornery basement dweller, bows in worship
I am hoping that current prices should come down a bit; they're currently priced as if they had some sort of "Enterprise Class Premium Edition" of an OS or something, but I feel like you're buying what essentially is the LCD part of a netbook, and an e-reader part of a distro.
The current ones *do have nice displays and elegant cases, but I feel I should be getting a Newton or something, at that price, or at least a beefed-up mp3 player built in.
Oh don't worry. Us Hanna Montana linux users will put up a booth right directly ACROSS from these anime worshippers, all the better to emerge victorious in stare-down contests. That ought to even things out. They'd wish they had those eyes taking up 80% of their faces...
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I agree with the strong impact it would bring, 'fire up them rockets boys, we're going to Titan'
Can we hook up a waterskiing bot to it for MAXIMUM effect? Maybe the GenX kids with their love of extreme sports (freestyle boarding/skiing, mountain biking whatever) would become the future explorers or even engineers. Hell there won't be rocks to slow this thing down. And don't forget a possible epilog: let it sink and shoot out a couple more snapshots at us; who knows, something could be blinking down there.
At work we had a 12 cup pot, and I'd prepare the coffee when I needed a fix and the pot was empty. But I can't wait for the *entire* pot to fill, so an officeworker showed me this trick of putting my coffee mug directly under the spout as soon as it started dripping. After getting my mug out, I put the carafe in. Man, considering i got "extra virgin" 12x power, you could guess I was bouncing around in the IT department. And the rest of the department? I don't know if they noticed the coffee was not the usual strength...
I'm surprised that a lot of folks aren't aware of Busybox, it's been on nearly every install CD or live
CD I've ever tried. Man, does that count as having read the F'in manual? Y'know that you hit Alt-F2 or
Alt-F3 to troubleshoot an installation, or something...
Or maybe Linux has reached mainstream level already, and few people ever even dare press Alt-F2... All
I'm missing now is a low UID...
Now that I know that this won't affect the Isolated Basement Department, I can now safely install Office 2003...
Receipt, check. Shrinkwrap off, check. Must keep original box...
...as I rode shotgun with the tow truck driver and listened to his GPS on the dash giving him the directions to my house. There was no way he could cheat me about the mileage to my house. Granted the language that the gadget's feminine voice spoke was one I didn't readily understand (for most people, Miami is South America j/k), and I doubt that man and woma--err, machine were conspiring to bill me excess $$ for that short trip, but I remembered to glare at the driver anyway, in case he even entertained the very *idea* of taking the longer way round.
My God that thing is HUGE!
Oh,I didn't see the hand. But I saw how tiny the Blackberry was next to it and thought...
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and even the most intelligent fellow is liable to the ocassional episode of stupidity
That was only the *one* time, I told you. Jeez, cut me some slack will ya. Well, since you've been most gracious in not mentioning my name, I won't be the spelling Nazi right now, and we'll call it even. In fact, to top it off, on Monday I will even pretend you didn't even make this post.
Jes sayin'...
But come on, have them GNOME guys steal all the thunder? Lookin for a new sensation?
Honey, let's go. I gave that curator teen $20 to make sure that packet loss lasts for hours till we finish the movie...think he's going to explain ISPs and technical difficulties later...
But...but...(lips trembling)...but I thought we were the wild?
/** runs sobbing **/
It's something I have in e17. If that one has it, I'm sure the other WMs have it as well (may be hidden
and have to be dug up). The WMs seem to follow some rules (EWMH?) and almost at the same time.
I found Push to do what I want, it will jump to either an empty space or the screen/monitor edge.
Sweet! Life in e is shall we say, Excellent. It can even shade windows left or shade windows right. I
might run out of keys to bind some more.
There are two ways, one is called Push L/R, the other is Move by ..., in which he can set a value to his liking (X/ Y
coordinates). Now just bind them to a key combo and one is set.
But I enjoyed looking thru the different ways people use their desktops, and what limitations they've faced and had to
overcome. This is probably the most 'gathering' of multimonitor fans to come to a discussion. I was suprised to find a kindred
soul wondering why the framebuffer in such setups can't be made to tile or split across multihead setups without using
Xwindows.
Yo dawg I heard you wanted to disable GNOME...
But seriously now, there might be a 'Clicking on a window always raises it' paired with 'Switching focus raises window' but I make sure to UNcheck the first one. If e16 and e17 have that (and e16 used to come with GNOME) then GNOME probably has that somewhere. Then its just a matter of combining those focus options to suit the way you work. Gosh I really hope they've retained that, what if that was the last straw that caused Linus to switch to KDE...j/k
In nvidia its the @ setting (I posted this above elsewhere). Warning though, it introduces panning on that screen that was smaller, but omitting this gets you back to square 1. LCD/DFP was shorter than CRT on the right, but now both are equally 1024 tall. Feel free to try it out, but keep sharp objects away if the panning gets to be a major distraction. The good news is, Mister E area, he can't hide from you no more.
Option "MetaModes" "DFP: 1440x900 +0+0@1440x1024, CRT: 1280x1024 +1441+0"
He's not actually talking about multi-desktop, he's talking about multi-screen. He wants to use the keyboard to move a window to another physical monitor, not another virtual desktop.
And even though I have responded with my preference, I am taken aback at the question. Alt-Space gets to most titlebars menus, like I think an Ubuntu user has posted, and options to resize and move windows appear.
This works on Windows 3.11.
I think it has to do with making the display a 'rectangular' workspace, then randr might work. Like my widescreen is shorter than the CRT on the right, so this @ option in device 'equalizes' their height to 1024 (it introduces panning, though, on the left, and omitting it blocks out anything that spills into that area, i.e. a really wide dock). My third monitor got fried so I am not able to check out an L-shaped config but that I would make a huge square. Then randr might work; I was happy that X kicked in that I never even bothered checking, after using nvidia's config tool and a couple of old xorg.conf backups from my previous installs. glxinfo showed me all I needed to know.
Option "MetaModes" "DFP: 1440x900 +0+0@1440x1024, CRT: 1280x1024 +1441+0"
Elive CD, and if your graphics card GPU is nvidia, its friendly enough. It's got keyboard/binding customizability (if thats a cromulant word), more than your fair share, too. Near-useless keys can do more useful things for you, e.g. I've turned mine into a multimedia keyboard almost. As for swapping windows between workspaces, I simply nail them to a desktop (say Desktop 2 for browsing, Desktop 3 for rss, etc) and two keys side by side that are bound to Switch Desktop Left / Right, so it's more 'Switch to this desktop' instead of swapping contents. And when ecomorph/compiz is on, the cube spins in the correct direction. Devel elive is stable enough for casual everyday use, as long as 'casual' doesn't involve terms like 'breathing apparatus' or 'intensive care'.
E16 has a beautiful pager that provided HIGH QUALITY snapshots of each desktop, in miniature. I have never seen anything like it. You will never get lost. A slew of themes are in efflux.org iirc, but they look kinda dated.
Cue the critics. But it's one of those things, you'll love it or hate it after a few minutes. But I hate FisherPrice candy-colored fruity desktop icons and taskbars more than most people.
Source Code or Nothing! but judging from the few posts above, I am tempted to say, in my best Ed McMahon voice, You are correct, Sir!
but such devices never get such cool usage. they get some waggle/natal/eyetoy shovelware and stop being interesting as the novelty wears off
...until you lift that coffee mug, and your hands happen to be on the keyboard.
You know this sh*t happened in real life. The unfortunate part was, it was in a certain room in a hospital back in my country. No matter what disease, they couldn't figure out why the patients succumbed, as it were, to their illness. These contract janitors would clean up one day of the week. In this room, there was no other outlet for the vacuum cleaner, so you can guess what he would do, not thinking of dire consequences.
Is that your real UID? AND you shared photos that *you* took of the Shuttle?! You sir, for Slashdot, are The Right Stuff! /me, an ornery basement dweller, bows in worship
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that you carry around a mug with THAT exact label on it, black on white. And it's got coffee, not pencils/pens.
I am hoping that current prices should come down a bit; they're currently priced as if they had some sort of "Enterprise Class Premium Edition" of an OS or something, but I feel like you're buying what essentially is the LCD part of a netbook, and an e-reader part of a distro.
The current ones *do have nice displays and elegant cases, but I feel I should be getting a Newton or something, at that price, or at least a beefed-up mp3 player built in.
Oh don't worry. Us Hanna Montana linux users will put up a booth right directly ACROSS from these anime worshippers, all the better to emerge victorious in stare-down contests. That ought to even things out. They'd wish they had those eyes taking up 80% of their faces...