[nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher

[Cyber Source]

Cyber Source wrote:

> Josh Johnson wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joshua Ronne Altemoos" <joshua at wolfnix.net>
>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>> Subject: Re: [nflug] OSX Like Desktop Switcher
>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:07:10 -0500 (EST)
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>>> This app looks very cool but also very resource intensive.
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>> Its not really, so long as you have opengl working. Just like Frank, 
>> I only use it for showing off. But for day-to-day use I don't keep it 
>> on. Its been a while (and I'm away from my home computer) but if I 
>> remember correctly it used somewhere around 5-7% CPU on my P3. Even 
>> that is more than I'm willing to expend for every day use. That's why 
>> I got away from Windows. But such is the price of neatness.
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>> http://desk3d.sourceforge.net
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>>>> Mark T. Valites wrote:
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>>>>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Frank Kumro wrote:
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>>>>>> Does anyone know of a linux app that does the cool transition effect
>>>>>> between desktops like OSX has?
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>>>>> 3ddesktop
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>>>> Want to second what Mark so accurately but tersely said.  What you are
>>>> looking for is indeed 3DDesk.  On my cutting-edge SMP system all I 
>>>> do is
>>>> press alt-3 in Fluxbox (an action set in the ~/.fluxbox/keys file) and
>>>> the screen immediately recedes into the background and assumes its
>>>> position as the current face on the cube, arrow keys whirl the cube
>>>> clockwise or counter-clockwise, and enter brings the present face back
>>>> to the foreground.
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>>>> All very cool, but I only use it when I'm trying to kill someone with
>>>> the elegance, efficiency, and productivity of GNU/Linux and Fluxbox.
>>>> What can be faster than alt-F1-F4?
>>>>
>>>> Frank
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> Thanks guys, this is too freakin cool! I went to sourceforge and they 
> had an rpm for FC4 that was like 82k! Downloaded and installed in 
> Gnome, works beautifully!
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I also created a shortcut for it and put it in my toolbar instead of the 
usual 4 box (or however many) switch box that's normally there, I did 
this instead of creating a custom keyboard sequence. However, in looking 
for how to make a custom sequence, I did find a really cool write up 
someone did about apps like "showkeys" and such, too damn cool. If you 
fire up showkeys and hit a key, it will tell you what exactly to call 
that key in a script, etc., for making custom keymapping! There are 
other keyboard related apps, read the man page on showkeys and it refers 
to them.
  And do you know what the first mapping I'm going to do when I figure 
out how to make a custom keymap? I'm going to disable that freakin caps 
locks key! The write up specifically refers to that one, lol.
  Oh btw, Linux freakin rocks!! ;)
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