Great, I just found this here. This is how you can bind a key to the middle mouse button (I use the middle mouse button a lot to (a) paste stuff from the clipboard, (b) open links in background tabs in Firefox). I used the pause/break key, so it’s slightly modified. I first had to […]
I’ve switched from XEmacs to Emacs, about a month back. I like it much better. On Xubuntu, many more things work “out of the box” (for example the Noweb mode for Sweave). X clipboard contents are immediately available for yanking!
One thing that’s always annoyed me in both XEmacs and Emacs was the buffer switching […]
While outsourcing my memory to this blog is handy, it’s even better when I can outsource the blog’s task by just pointing to other blogs. xubuntu blog has a very nice writeup of installing Compiz on Xubuntu Gutsy.
It works without problems on the Dell Inspiron desktop (nVidia Corporation GeForce 8300 GS graphics card). I cannot […]
The Drupal Form Tweaker module lets you change the way users can select vocabulary/ category terms when they submit content. By default, this is a dropdown list, which is a bit ugly and especially annoying to use if you want to select multiple terms. With form tweaker, you can set the terms to be presented […]
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 […]