iB::Topic::mousless OS

	Damn Small Linux :: Damn Small Linux Board The DSL Forums

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » DSL Tips and Tricks » mousless OS

		Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
		Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic

Pages: (5) </ 1 2 3 [4] 5 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Topic: mousless OS, does an OS need a mouse?

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

escay

Group: Members
Posts: 22
Joined: May 2006

Posted: May 24 2006,07:22

hi,

does this mean, that i have to get the developer-version to have that feature? otherwise i have to bind the applicationlaunch to keystrokes?

what makes me curious is the fact, that even jwm has the ability to navigate through the rootmenu via arrowkeys.

do i have to compile the developer-version if i deceide to use it? anyone did it before with tcc? are there any unresolved dependencies?

regards
escay

mikshaw

Group: Members
Posts: 4856
Joined: July 2004

Posted: May 24 2006,15:14

The devel version is available from the myDSL repository. 0.9.11 is in "window mgr apps" and 0.9.14 is in "uci". 0.9.11 uses its own set of config files in $HOME/.fluxbox_0.9.11 and 0.9.14 uses the same files as DSL's fluxbox.

As I said before I don't know for sure if this is a feature not in fluxbox stable, and i haven't yet checked it, but I assume that you would be able to do it by default if it was available. There is no init resource for this feature that I'm aware of.

--------------
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

MDG

Group: Members
Posts: 41
Joined: April 2006

Posted: May 25 2006,02:55

Escay,

Found this page: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/fluxbox.html

Down the page you will find fluxbox navigation keys patch info.

MDG

EDIT: I went back and checked the link to the patch - its not linked anymore. Anyway, some more info on Fluxbox. I had no luck configuring menu navigation other than getting root menu to come up. Oh well.....

escay

Group: Members
Posts: 22
Joined: May 2006

Posted: May 27 2006,16:51

hi,

i switched to jwm - it is (at least for me) a lot easier to use, because you can nativly navigate the rootmenu with arrowkeys. i do not really need a keygrabber.

here are my settings for JWM so far:

ALT + F1 = rootmenu
ALT + F2 = window settings
ALT + TAB = next window
ALT + 1,2,3,4 = desktop 1,2,3,4
ALT + o = maximize window
ALT + F4 = Close window

---------------------------

for browsing the www with keyboard only i use w3m (could not find proper documentation on netrik)

---------------------------

i made /home/dsl/docs for a set of textfiles, which contains the keybindings for each application i need. there is one file for each application with keybindings. so i made one file for xpdf, one for xmms, one for jwm. then i can read these on an xterm on lets say desktop#2 while the application is running on desktop#1.
that is it - it works perfect for me. it was really made within minutes to edit .jwmrc in /home/dsl.

now i can finally get rid of the mouse ;-)

regards
escay

MDG

Group: Members
Posts: 41
Joined: April 2006

Posted: May 28 2006,01:40

Escay,

I downloaded the fluxbox-0.9.14.uci - -good news - cursor key navigation works!!!

It should also work in the 0.9.11.dsl version (anything above 0.9.4 - it should work).

I had a Knoppix 4.0.2 disk and booted it to fluxbox and cursor kay navigation worked there.

So, the answer is yes - cursor key navigation works!

MDG

21 replies since May 18 2006,12:17

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (5) </ 1 2 3 [4] 5 >/

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » DSL Tips and Tricks » mousless OS