power-user's desktop is *tuned*, not just pre-set (was: Mac OS X v. Linux)

[Michael Shigorin]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:34:50PM -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> Eureka: I hereby propose that ALT-~ be reserved to cycle
> through windows in a particular app in Linux. Let's do
> something that Windows hasn't and that will make Linux more
> usable!

*sigh*

While that could be an interesting idea, folks have long ago
invented tabbed UI model (with shortcuts like Ctrl-Pg* to switch
between them being kind of standard) and virtual desktops.

Maybe you'd spare quite a time by looking at them all and
learning basic screen(1) for some console sessions.

Still I suspect that learning proper *NIX-compatible editor 
(meaning vim or (x)emacs) a bit would spare *loads* of time, 
judging on admiration with built-in grep.

PS: sorry, just couldn't resist some good advice I've got 
from friends long ago :-)

PPS: usually running 7 WindowMaker virtual desktops these days
with up to 30--40 windows happening to include up to ~10 browser
windows with 1--20 or so tabs each, or a real bunch of GIMP
images, or just a load of aterm's with ssh sessions, vim's,
zsh'es and so on.  The manageability is pretty solid, and I have
had some Windows 3.x to XP and MacOS 7 through 10 exposure 
to compare.

What's worse, that's a habit since p133/96M days ;-)

Oh well, tuning thing is boring, and me probably too.

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