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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: Wanna use xcalc without mouse
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.235707.5293@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <BEN.92Jul24113427@cit3sun1.it3.crl.mei.co.jp>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:57:07 GMT
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- In article <BEN.92Jul24113427@cit3sun1.it3.crl.mei.co.jp>, ben@it3.crl.mei.co.jp (Ben Reaves) writes:
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- > I'd like to use xcalc without touching the mouse at all - only the
- > keyboard. [...] Here's how I do it now:
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- > 1. type "xcalc"
- > 2. the xcalc window shows on the screen. [no need to touch mouse]
- > 3. Move the mouse so the cursor is in the xcalc window
- > 4. type my commands to xcalc
- > 5. ^C when I am done.
-
- > I want to eliminate step 3.
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- You will have to argue your window manager into giving keyboard focus
- to the xcalc window. This may or may not be easy; I don't know enough
- about twm to be sure, though I think it is possible to change keyboard
- focus with keystrokes. In any case, the window manager is the place
- you will have to look.
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
-