Finding Nautilus - newbie

[david]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 13:00, David M. Carney wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 01:42 +1300, Lindsay wrote:
> >By right clicking I got a menu that allowed Open Terminal, Open Launcher
> >and some others (not Nautilis),  but nothing with left click and ctrl l.
> >
> >On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 12:17 +0000, david wrote:
> >> click on the desktop and then type Ctrl + l and then type ~ in the window and 
> >> press enter.
> >> 
> >> regards
> >> David
> >> 
> >> (It may be possible to assign a key stroke combination to this but I'm not 
> >> sure.)
> >> 
> >
> >
> 
> Click anywhere on the desktop. Not on a running program.
> 
> A menu will not appear, but after clicking, you can hold down the ctrl
> key and press the l key (both at the same time). A dialog box should pop
> up.
> 
> Then release them and press the ~ key. and press the enter key.
> 
> David
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
Yupp,
Apologies, I didn't explain it properly.

You need to click on the Desktop because the default mouse/cursor mode
is "click to raise", in other words, the last window you were working in
remains active even when the cursor moves away from it and will do so
until you click somewhere else or return to it. The UNIX standard
(afaik) is "focus follows mouse" so to make another window (or the
desktop) "active" you just need to move the cursor over it. The
difference being that when you click on an open application window it
comes to the top (if you have more than one open), whereas with the UNIX
way the window becomes active but "stays where it is" and doesn't come
to the top. It's quicker to work with once you've got the hang of it and
if you know what state the active window is in you can input to it
without it needing to be uppermost. You can access the options for this
in the Preferences > Windows dialogue.(Where you can also set the title
bar of windows to roll up when you double click on them - a great little
space saver.)

regards

David