[opensuse] Question about Desktop Effiects - I think
Am using KDE 4.14.2 and have several Virtual Desktops each with its own set of widgets. I use each Virtual Desktop to run a specific application - eg, DE #2 will have Firefox and DE #3 will have some game running while DE #8 will have a TV program running. In oS 13.1 I can push the mouse cursor into the top-left corner of the screen and all running applications on all desktops become displayed on the desktop as 'miniature' screens and I can then click on any one these to bring them up to the forefront in full screen and work on the application on that desktop. Doing this I can switch from watching a TV program to posting a message - with the TV running in the background. Could someone please remind me what I did to be able to push the cursor into the top-left corner of the screen to be able to do the above? For the life of me I cannot remember what I did. At the moment all I can do is to push the cursor to either the left- or right-hand SIDES of the screen and move to the next desktop - but that's not what I want. Anyone throw a suggestion on what I did before and now forgot? :-) . Thanks. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.2 & kernel 3.17.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 02/11/2014 14:57, Basil Chupin a écrit :
Could someone please remind me what I did to be able to push the cursor into the top-left corner of the screen
it's on kde config in my french config it's the first upper left icon (effets de bureau: desktop effects?) jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/11/14 01:03, jdd wrote:
Le 02/11/2014 14:57, Basil Chupin a écrit :
Could someone please remind me what I did to be able to push the cursor into the top-left corner of the screen
it's on kde config
in my french config it's the first upper left icon (effets de bureau: desktop effects?)
jdd
Thanks for the pointer but while it is in System Settings (which you call 'kde config'), System Setting is a pretty vast playing field :-) . See my response to Anton. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.2 & kernel 3.17.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/02/2014 08:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Could someone please remind me what I did to be able to push the cursor into the top-left corner of the screen to be able to do the above? For the life of me I cannot remember what I did. At the moment all I can do is to push the cursor to either the left- or right-hand SIDES of the screen and move to the next desktop - but that's not what I want.
systemsettings Workspace behaviour Screen edges While I do understand and have tried this myself, in the long run I found it an annoyance and preferred hot keying or using the rotating cube. -- What is character but the determination of incident what is incident but the illustration of character? - Henery James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/11/14 01:10, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 11/02/2014 08:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Could someone please remind me what I did to be able to push the cursor into the top-left corner of the screen to be able to do the above? For the life of me I cannot remember what I did. At the moment all I can do is to push the cursor to either the left- or right-hand SIDES of the screen and move to the next desktop - but that's not what I want. systemsettings Workspace behaviour Screen edges
After I read the above and went there I realised that I have been there at half-a-dozen times - so your comment was nothing new :-) . Nothing new UNTIL I accidentally pressed the right-hand mouse button and.....VOILA! Memories came flooding back! :-) I can clearly see why some people dislike KDE because having to press the R-H button to get a drop-down menu to achieve the result one wants is not intuitive. Yes, I know, the R-H button does many things but is just doesn't come to mind when you are in Workspace Behaviour>Screen Edges and having to press the R-H button on the screen edge "icon" you want to do what you want it to do. Having said this, many thanks for getting me out of "trouble" :-)
While I do understand and have tried this myself, in the long run I found it an annoyance and preferred hot keying or using the rotating cube.
I tried the rotating cube many, many moons ago but found that to be distracting and "bling" rather than being practical. But, then, whatever floats your boat, right? :-) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.2 & kernel 3.17.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 03/11/2014 06:47, Basil Chupin a écrit :
Nothing new UNTIL I accidentally pressed the right-hand mouse button and.....VOILA! Memories came flooding back! :-)
I *never* have to do that. Didn't you incidentally setup a left haned mouse? jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/11/14 19:10, jdd wrote:
Le 03/11/2014 06:47, Basil Chupin a écrit :
Nothing new UNTIL I accidentally pressed the right-hand mouse button and.....VOILA! Memories came flooding back! :-)
I *never* have to do that. Didn't you incidentally setup a left haned mouse?
jdd
No, I have always had right-handed mices. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.2 & kernel 3.17.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/11/14 00:29, James Knott wrote:
On 11/03/2014 08:23 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
No, I have always had right-handed mices. How can you tell? ;-)
You're trying to drag me into an offtopic conversation and get Patrick - or Per - all wound up, right? :-) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.2 & kernel 3.17.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/03/2014 08:29 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 11/03/2014 08:23 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
No, I have always had right-handed mices.
How can you tell? ;-)
I wonder .... Basil is "down under". We joke about things being reversed/upside-down but perhaps .... -- E pluribus unum. (Out of many, one.) - Motto for the Seal of the United States. Adopted 20 June 1782, recommended by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, 10 Aug. 1776, and proposed by Swiss artist Pierre Eugene du SimitiËre. It had originally appeared on the title page of the Gentleman's Journal (Jan. 1692). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:10 AM, jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Le 03/11/2014 06:47, Basil Chupin a écrit :
Nothing new UNTIL I accidentally pressed the right-hand mouse button and.....VOILA! Memories came flooding back! :-)
I *never* have to do that. Didn't you incidentally setup a left haned mouse?
jdd
It works with both left and right mouse clicks for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/03/2014 08:45 AM, Todd Rme wrote:
It works with both left and right mouse clicks for me.
Thank you. Anyone else care to describe how it works for them? -- Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. - Adlai Stevenson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/03/2014 12:47 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 03/11/14 01:10, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 11/02/2014 08:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Could someone please remind me what I did to be able to push the cursor into the top-left corner of the screen to be able to do the above? For the life of me I cannot remember what I did. At the moment all I can do is to push the cursor to either the left- or right-hand SIDES of the screen and move to the next desktop - but that's not what I want. systemsettings Workspace behaviour Screen edges
After I read the above and went there I realised that I have been there at half-a-dozen times - so your comment was nothing new :-) .
Nothing new UNTIL I accidentally pressed the right-hand mouse button and.....VOILA! Memories came flooding back! :-)
I navigate there and click on the blobs on the little screen diagram screen edges. An ordinary click works for me. A right click works exactly the same. I'd be interested in what other members of the list find. Perhps you have some oddity in your mouse setup.
I can clearly see why some people dislike KDE because having to press the R-H button to get a drop-down menu to achieve the result one wants is not intuitive.
I would agree with you in principle, but I note two things. The first is "it isn't so". The second is that you are quick to criticise. I also wonder about your configuration/machine setup. There seem to be many anomalies. Linux/openSuse&KDE doesn't seem to work for you the way it works for me. Perhaps I'm more forgiving. Perhaps the software is psychic and senses your antagonism and, childishly, digs its heels in and becomes uncooperative for you, whereas I treat it with respect and don't bully it or badmouth it. Yes, I know, its hard to believe in psychic software, but there you are. How else to explain that things work for me and they don't work for you?
While I do understand and have tried this myself, in the long run I found it an annoyance and preferred hot keying or using the rotating cube.
I tried the rotating cube many, many moons ago but found that to be distracting and "bling" rather than being practical. But, then, whatever floats your boat, right? :-)
This is a computer, not a boat. I keep it away from water. Well, OK, sometimes the keyboard gets a taste of coffee ... -- Never was anything great achieved without danger. -- Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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