Some things I do to use the mouse less when browsing.
Use Firefox shortcuts (just google for a list).
I’ve installed the mouseless browsing (MLB) Firefox extension. Every link in a page gets tagged with an ID. Type that ID, then hit ENTER. (For me, this works using “Find as you type” in the Firefox […]
Suspend used to work fine out of the box for me. The Xfce logout menu showed a suspend button, and that’s what I used. After manually upgrading Dapper to Xfce 4.4.1, that button is gone, and I cannot get it back.
Now, I finally found the command tha suspends the machine when run from the terminal/ […]
I was looking for this for a long time: the commands that bring up the Xfce menu, the Xfce windowlist and shift focus to the Verve (Xfce panel mini commandline), so that I can bind them to keyboard shortcuts.
They are, respectively, xfdesktop -menu, xfdesktop -windowlist, and verve-focus.
I had to reinstall verve to get verve-focus, […]
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the keyboard section, I added the line:
Option “XkbOptions” “compose:ralt”
Now, I can type most accented characters and umlauts by first hitting the right ALT key.
A few examples (key combinations below all preceded by right ALT key):
` e: è (backtick followed by e)
” u: ü
, c: ç
s s: ß
Addendum
Changed this to […]
In ~/.Xmodmap
keycode 233 = F20
keycode 234 = F19
After changes, say:
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
This activates the keys that I have on the IBM X40 next to the up arrow key on the bottom right of the keyboard. Now, I can bind them to commands Xfce.
Then, I found a nice article on using the CapsLock key to type […]