Re: On graphical environments [was: what keyboard do you use?]
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 06:33 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 09:40:30PM +0100, hw wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Have you ever entered ipv4 addresses (and floats) on a German
> > keyboard? It's insane.
>
> While I do agree with other of your points (CTRL-] being one,
> although you exaggerated by one key), I don't understand this
> one. I'm entering IPv4 addresses every day in a German keyboard
> and I don't see any problem. IPv6 is trickier, though...
>
> But floats? Where's the problem?
I'm entering numbers, like ipv4 addresses and floats, through the
number pad, with one hand. Unless you change the keyboard layout so
you have a dot instead of a (useless) comma on the Del key, you can't
sanely enter such numbers, and you can't reasonably do it with one
hand.
Add to that that I'm using the trackball with my left hand and you
understand that I would have to take my hand off the trackball just to
enter such numbers. Even then it would be nuisance.
>
> [...]
>
> > Gnome has actually become usable about 2 years ago, though I miss
> > fvwm [...]
>
> That's why I came full circle back from GNOME (with some stops in
> XFCE, awesome) to fvwm. I like a setup where the window manager is
> *my* ally, not that of some krazy applications (browsers, I'm looking
> at you). Including a key combo for xkill (I even clawed back the
> little skull for the cursor :-)
>
> Fvwm does work in Debian. Try it!
Then why aren't you using fvwm? Gnome is more your enemy than your
ally since it still lacks almost all configurability.
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