mikshaw
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Posted: May 18 2006,15:33 |
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Fluxbox has a very good keygrabber, in my opinion. It can be configured to do practically all of its tasks with the keyboard, and it can be done fairly easily. Ratpoison is made specifically for keyboarders, and was built to resemble Screen. There will soon also be wmii in the repository, which is another keyboard-driven window manager.
Evilwm is not so great as far as keyboarding goes. The program itself is well-controlled through keys, but there is no keybinding available, so applications must be started from a terminal unless you use an additional keygrabber program. This is not very efficient when compared to Fluxbox's ability to assign hotkeys to launch any number of commands.
My personal opinion is that all applications in an ideal world should have the ability to be controlled with a keyboard, regardless of whether or not you have a perfectly useable mouse. Some tasks are better suited to a mouse, such as drawing or shooting monsters, but most can be done at least as efficently with a keyboard.
You can view some pdf files in console indirectly by running them through pdftotext and piping the output to a pager or text editor, although this doesn't work on files that have been locked or do not contain plain text. It definitely is not the same as using a pdf viewer.
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