I'm looking at keyboard shortcuts and I have no idea what some of the functions are. I don't see any documentation on it at all, so I suppose this is the right place to ask.
* There's a function called "Switch to Screen $ii" for ii in 0 to 7. What pray tell is a "screen". I know it's not a Desktop.
* I have a few effects turned on. What is Toggle Expose Effect and Toggle Sharpen Effect? They don't seem to do anything obvious.
* I found some arrows that seem to be drawn with Meta+Shift+Ctrl. What is that?
* And my last question (for tonight) is: What is an activity? I do understand that kde4 is a work in progress and I am honored to be a guinea pig, but when it's done, what will I be thrilled to be doing with it? It seems like I can have a desktop with multiple widget configurations, but is that a good thing?
TIA
Festivus for the Restivus :-)
On Friday 26 December 2008 17:21:51 Steven W. Orr wrote:
I'm looking at keyboard shortcuts and I have no idea what some of the functions are. I don't see any documentation on it at all, so I suppose this is the right place to ask.
- There's a function called "Switch to Screen $ii" for ii in 0 to 7.
What pray tell is a "screen". I know it's not a Desktop.
- I have a few effects turned on. What is Toggle Expose Effect and Toggle
Sharpen Effect? They don't seem to do anything obvious.
- I found some arrows that seem to be drawn with Meta+Shift+Ctrl. What is
that?
These questions are outside my level of competence. I can only suggest that you google for them and include the word 'kwin' in your query..
- And my last question (for tonight) is: What is an activity?
http://userbase.kde.org/Glossary#Activities
I do understand that kde4 is a work in progress and I am honored to be a guinea pig, but when it's done, what will I be thrilled to be doing with it?
Discovering a myriad of small things that make your work more efficient - but they are not always immediately apparent. You have to be prepared to learn afresh.
It seems like I can have a desktop with multiple widget configurations, but is that a good thing?
As with everything else - it depends on what you elect to do with it.
Anne
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Steven W. Orr steveo@syslang.net wrote:
- There's a function called "Switch to Screen $ii" for ii in 0 to 7.
What pray tell is a "screen". I know it's not a Desktop.
screens refer to monitors. screen 0 being the first monitor.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Steven W. Orr steveo@syslang.net wrote:
I'm looking at keyboard shortcuts and I have no idea what some of the functions are. I don't see any documentation on it at all, so I suppose this is the right place to ask.
- There's a function called "Switch to Screen $ii" for ii in 0 to 7.
What pray tell is a "screen". I know it's not a Desktop.
Try it out, I suspect you're referring to switching between virtual desktops.
- I have a few effects turned on. What is Toggle Expose Effect and Toggle
Sharpen Effect? They don't seem to do anything obvious.
Example of a random Expose effect: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=11988
Didn't find an example of sharpen, but this page mentions it: http://rivolaks.blogspot.com/2007/09/kwin-improvements.html
- I found some arrows that seem to be drawn with Meta+Shift+Ctrl. What is
that?
Not a clue
- And my last question (for tonight) is: What is an activity?
I haven't seen that term used outside the Sugar desktop myself
I do understand that kde4 is a work in progress and I am honored to be a guinea pig, but when it's done, what will I be thrilled to be doing with it?
I am not sure anyone can tell you that. I personally use it to get work done better.
It seems like I can have a desktop with multiple widget configurations, but is that a good thing?
Well it's not necessarily a bad thing. KDE, Google, Gnome, MacOS and Windows Vista all seem to have this feature now, so I guess someone uses it. At the very least, you may find the folder widget useful.
Also, just so you know: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde may be of use to you if the noise level on this list is too high.
Steven W. Orr wrote:
- I have a few effects turned on. What is Toggle Expose Effect and Toggle
Sharpen Effect? They don't seem to do anything obvious.
Expose changes the way Alt-Tab works, it shows all windows next to each other and highlights the current one, and the windows are back in their original, possibly overlapping positions once you're done with alt-tabbing.
As for Sharpen, I think that just applies an image sharpening effect to the whole screen contents. Try viewing some blurry photos and see if they get magically sharpened by the effect. It's not something particularly useful as a desktop-wide effect, but more of a demo of what kind of transformations are possible with compositing.
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