Re: Some ideas for multiple monitors

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Bernhard Posselt <bernhard posselt gmx at> wrote:

Thats actually a pretty good idea but I tend to use the mouse. I dunno,
maybe because my mouse cord is longer than my keyboard's (ms comfort
curve 2000) and I'm often relaxed and leaned back in front of my Monitor
and therefore using my mouse a lot.

Ah, yes, good point.  What about mouse acceleration to be able to do that?  I guess I'm not sure how to resolve the problem since I think it persists even in Gnome 2.0 and possibly other OSes.  If you have proper mouse acceleration you might be able to move the mouse fast enough to get to the host spot with a little more effect than a flick.
 

Imho keyboard shortcuts are not bad, but mainly for advanced users which
favor the keyboard and should not be mandatory for all users to have a
good experience. Plus it could be implemented as an option and therefore
turned off if people who dont like it.

I've actually hit the windows button in shell to see what it would do since it doesn't quite have a place in the Linux world.  I'm not sure what that key would do for emacs users who might possibly want to use that key.

As for advance users, I think if you're using a multi monitor setup that isn't a projector/laptop or laptop/monitor you're likely an advanced user since you're already specializing in a work flow model that is outside the regular user.  It might take some iterations to flush out what the right way that would work for gnome-shell and artists like yourself.

sri

Am Mittwoch, den 05.01.2011, 19:29 -0800 schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna:

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> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Bernhard Posselt
> <bernhard posselt gmx at> wrote:
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>         Now if I want to switch an app on the right screen or launch
>         an app, I
>         neither have a dock nor a panel on that screen, which means
>         that I have
>         to move my mouse all the way over to the most left spot on my
>         main
>         screen. Although its not that much of a problem imagine the
>         same thing
>         for 3 monitors with the main monitor on the most left.
>
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>  Why not use the keyboard shortcut?  For me if I hit the "windows" key
> or whatever is your meta key, it will immediately go into overview
> mode.  You don't actually have to move your mouse all the way to the
> hot spot. Now it might be nice to be able to move the hot spot from
> one corner to another for left handers who do have to move across the
> screen even on a single monitor.
>
>
> Personally, I've tend to use the keyboard more unless I'm doing
> "window management".  But running an app is easier using the keyboard
> short cut.
>
>
> Since you're using more than one monitor I would guess that you know
> your work flow and fitting the keyboard would not be that much of a
> change?
>
>
> sri
>