Welcome to Linux: Linux for the Student on Sunday, 7-Dec-2008

2008-12-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
As part of the Welcome to Linux ( http://welcome.linux.org.il/ ) series, the Tel Aviv Linux club will hold the third meeting in the series, next Sunday, 7-December-2008. Sagiv Barhoom will present about "Linux for the Student" The presentation will start at 18:30, in the Schreiber building, room

Re: grab focus

2008-12-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:18:24AM +0200, Erez D wrote: hi i'm looking for a command line util which lets me change x-focus. i am running two apps with *no window manager*, and i want to be able to switch focus between the two by command line aptitude install xdo

Re: grab focus

2008-12-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:18:24AM +0200, Erez D wrote: > hi > > > i'm looking for a command line util which lets me change x-focus. > i am running two apps with no window manager, and i want to be able to > switch focus between the two by command line aptitude install xdotool http://www.semico

Re: Roll your own Window Manager (was: Re: Re: grab focus)

2008-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:43:39AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > I googled for the above and came up with: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmonad - a tiling window manager for > X-Window, written in Haskell. Makes it possible to manage windows > without using a mouse. > > http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/

Re: grab focus

2008-12-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Omer Zak wrote: At impulse, I downloaded and compiled it. The 'Usage:' path works for me. >From usability point of view, the documentation (and maybe the application itself) Patches welcome. It was a focused effort, oh, maybe half an hour long. Most of that time was spent searching for the na