How do I minimize all the windows?
In Windows, I could press Windows+M to minimize all the windows to the taskbar. How do I do it in Linux (SUSE10.0/KDE)? I also would like to have an icon on the taskbar to do the same thing... /Jan K. -- Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character... http://www.fmbv.nu
Jan Karjalainen wrote:
In Windows, I could press Windows+M to minimize all the windows to the taskbar. How do I do it in Linux (SUSE10.0/KDE)? I also would like to have an icon on the taskbar to do the same thing...
There's a special button called "Desktop Access", which you can add to the panel. When you lick on it, all the open windoes are minimized.
Saturday 19 November 2005 18:31 samaye Jan Karjalainen alekhiit:
In Windows, I could press Windows+M to minimize all the windows to the taskbar. How do I do it in Linux (SUSE10.0/KDE)?
Ctrl+Alt+D is usually configured to show the desktop (worked for me just now)...
On Saturday 19 November 2005 15:23, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 19 November 2005 18:31 samaye Jan Karjalainen alekhiit:
In Windows, I could press Windows+M to minimize all the windows to the taskbar. How do I do it in Linux (SUSE10.0/KDE)?
Ctrl+Alt+D is usually configured to show the desktop (worked for me just now)...
Gee, thanks! :-) /Jan K. -- Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character... http://www.fmbv.nu
Saturday 19 November 2005 19:59 samaye Jan Karjalainen alekhiit:
Ctrl+Alt+D is usually configured to show the desktop (worked for me just now)...
Gee, thanks! :-)
Choose your own at: KDE Menu > Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Shortcuts > Shortcut Schemes Tab > Global Shortcuts Tab > Panel > Toggle Showing Desktop You may even be able to choose Win+M but I suggest getting out of those Windows habits. I even have started using Alt + F1 and Alt + F3 instead of Ctrl + Esc (or Win) and Alt + Space. :) HTH, Shriramana.
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
You may even be able to choose Win+M but I suggest getting out of those Windows habits. I even have started using Alt + F1 and Alt + F3 instead of
Ctrl + Esc (or Win) and Alt + Space. :)
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows? If it makes it easier for someone coming from Windows to assign Win+D to show his desktop or Win+F1 for help or Win+F3 for search or Win+E for Konquerer then why the hell not? Please continue in explaining to me why I should drop all my Windows habits just because I am on working on Linux? It is not like I drop all my Linux habits just because I'm working on Windows. I have setup doskey to alias ifconfig, ls, cp and mv to their Windows equivalents to name just a few. Sure I much rather use Linux but there are things I just am not able to do in Linux or are easier to do in Windows. But slowly I am replacing my Windows XP desktop for my SuSE Linux 9.3 KDE desktop. Sometimes even finding myself a bit lost on the Windows desktop... Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 2005/11/17
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:38 am, Albert wrote:
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows?
Amen. Think of it as an extra shift key -- and if you like, paste a penguin on top of it. Maybe someone will even start distributing "penguin" keys as replacements for the Windows keys on standard keyboards. Just a matter of prying up one and pressing in the other. Paul
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:38 am, Albert wrote:
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows?
Amen. Think of it as an extra shift key -- and if you like, paste a penguin on top of it.
Maybe someone will even start distributing "penguin" keys as replacements for the Windows keys on standard keyboards. Just a matter of prying up one and pressing in the other.
Cherry sells a keyboard that's customized for SUSE. http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/cymotion-line/cymotion-line_master_linux.h...
On 11/19/05, James Knott
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:38 am, Albert wrote:
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows?
Amen. Think of it as an extra shift key -- and if you like, paste a penguin on top of it.
Maybe someone will even start distributing "penguin" keys as replacements for the Windows keys on standard keyboards. Just a matter of prying up one and pressing in the other.
Cherry sells a keyboard that's customized for SUSE.
I can recommend "Das Keyboard" (http://www.daskeyboard.com/big.html)
which is, due to its "neutral" layout, suitable for all environments
and, by the way, feels just great. My $0.02.
\Steve
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On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:40 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:38 am, Albert wrote:
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows?
Amen. Think of it as an extra shift key -- and if you like, paste a penguin on top of it.
Maybe someone will even start distributing "penguin" keys as replacements for the Windows keys on standard keyboards. Just a matter of prying up one and pressing in the other.
Paul
http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/April2005/article373.shtml Penguin keys as requested.
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Albert, On Saturday 19 November 2005 07:38, Albert wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
You may even be able to choose Win+M but I suggest getting out of those Windows habits. I even have started using Alt + F1 and Alt + F3 instead of
Ctrl + Esc (or Win) and Alt + Space. :)
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows?
I'm really like the fact that in late-model KDEs (3.4 and subsequent, I believe), you can get the Win keys to activate the KDE menu. I use it that way all the time. And as an aside, I really like the search capability in the KDE menu as of SuSE 10.0.
If it makes it easier for someone coming from Windows to assign Win+D to show his desktop or Win+F1 for help or Win+F3 for search or Win+E for Konquerer then why the hell not?
There is no reason that any computer you use should not let you do things exactly the way you want to, especially insofar as it relates to user interface details.
....
Sure I much rather use Linux but there are things I just am not able to do in Linux or are easier to do in Windows. But slowly I am replacing my Windows XP desktop for my SuSE Linux 9.3 KDE desktop. Sometimes even finding myself a bit lost on the Windows desktop...
I still need to use Windows for certain purposes, mostly work-related. While I like to exercise my mind by forcing it to adapt to a variety of environments, it does get tiresome sometimes. My real philosophy is to take advantage of every little bit of customization any given piece of software affords. I make it a point to explore all the little options of every application I use more than occasionally or incidentally and to set them all to be just the way I like them. That doesn't mean I change them just to change them, but I make myself aware of their existence and change them if it suits my taste or way of doing things.
Albert
Carry on! Randall Schulz
Albert wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
You may even be able to choose Win+M but I suggest getting out of those Windows habits. I even have started using Alt + F1 and Alt + F3 instead of
Ctrl + Esc (or Win) and Alt + Space. :)
Why should I not use the Windows key? It is on my keyboard and is a wasted key so I may just as well use it to assign shortcuts. So what if that is the way it is done in Windows?
Throw out that keyboard and get one for Linux, that has a "Tux" key. ;-)
On Saturday 19 November 2005 09:16, Shriramana Sharma wrote: <SNIP>
Choose your own at:
KDE Menu > Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Shortcuts > Shortcut Schemes Tab > Global Shortcuts Tab > Panel > Toggle Showing Desktop
You may even be able to choose Win+M but I suggest getting out of those Windows habits. I even have started using Alt + F1 and Alt + F3 instead of Ctrl + Esc (or Win) and Alt + Space. :)
HTH,
Shriramana. ...And, while you're at it, don't forget to change the window closing keys from ALT+F4 to something --anything-- else so it, too, doesn't resemble 'Doze' in any way. ;-) -- ...Yogich
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 19 November 2005 18:31 samaye Jan Karjalainen alekhiit:
In Windows, I could press Windows+M to minimize all the windows to the taskbar. How do I do it in Linux (SUSE10.0/KDE)?
Ctrl+Alt+D is usually configured to show the desktop (worked for me just now)...
While I don't recall exactly where, there is a panel *SOMEWHERE* in KDE, where you can set up all those various key combos.
James Knott wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Saturday 19 November 2005 18:31 samaye Jan Karjalainen alekhiit:
In Windows, I could press Windows+M to minimize all the windows to the taskbar. How do I do it in Linux (SUSE10.0/KDE)?
Ctrl+Alt+D is usually configured to show the desktop (worked for me just now)...
While I don't recall exactly where, there is a panel *SOMEWHERE* in KDE, where you can set up all those various key combos.
You can also add the 'Desktop Access' button to your Panel. That will sort of minimuze all of your windows. -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/
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