<p>Compiz should support key bindings. Unity is a compiz plugin...</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 23, 2011 8:28 AM, "JD" <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On 06/23/2011 07:22 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:<br>>> Again, I'm speaking without using it. Have they not implemented a<br>
>> shortcut for a quick search? Every app on my Mac is one key chord then a<br>>> few characters away. Having a permanent icon for anything is kind of silly.<br>>> <br>>> We have 3TB drives and hundreds of thousands of apps at our disposal.<br>
>> Traditional organization no longer applies and that its only going to<br>>> get worse in the future.<br>>> <br>>> It's not just people in third world countries that benefit from these<br>>> new UIs. It's my children. They shouldn't be burdened with some 50 year<br>
>> old UI because it is what my Dad knew. Today's children are exposed to<br>>> touch UIs first. They are going to have the same vitriol for the<br>>> traditional UIs as what you are seeing here for the FIRST RELEASE of<br>
>> Unity. It will get better.<br>>> <br>> <br>> I don't know of **any** X/Windows-based system that doesn't support<br>> keymapping. There are lots of ways to accomplish this and it is often<br>
> part of the Window Manager. Unity supports it (somehow), openbox does<br>> it this way. Here are my favorites:<br>> <br>> <keybind key="C-A-t"> <!-- not all systems have a "windows" key --><br>
> <action name="execute"><br>> <command>xterm -sb -bg black -fg yellow</command><br>> </action><br>> </keybind><br>> <keybind key="W-t"><br>
> <action name="execute"><br>> <command>xterm -sb -bg black -fg yellow</command><br>> </action><br>> </keybind><br>> <keybind key="W-1"><br>
> <action name="execute"><br>> <command>firefox</command><br>> </action><br>> </keybind><br>> <keybind key="W-2"><br>> <action name="execute"><br>
> <command>thunderbird</command><br>> </action><br>> </keybind><br>> <keybind key="W-3"><br>> <action name="execute"><br>> <command>keepassx</command><br>
> </action><br>> </keybind><br>> <keybind key="W-c"><br>> <action name="execute"><br>> <command>gcalctool</command><br>> </action><br>
> </keybind><br>> <keybind key="W-e"><br>> <action name="execute"><br>> <command>geany</command><br>> </action><br>> </keybind><br>
> <br>> <br>> They fit inside a<br>> <keyboard></keyboard><br>> stanza in the ~/.config/openbox/whatever file. For LXDE, that file is<br>> ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml.<br>> <br>> Best of all, no desktop icons needed. By adding my .vimrc, my system<br>
> feels like "my system." That pesky Unity behavior of bring the already<br>> running instance up when you want a new instance is fixed.<br>> <br>> OTOH, I can agree that a nice GUI to setup keybindings would be nice for<br>
> noobs / anyone unwilling to edit a text file. I prefer editing a text<br>> file myself, but I hate the Windows registry and miss the old ini files too.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>
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