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Hi,

I have an IBM 600 ThinkPad running Linux and KDE.

I've read that you can "Alt-Tab" between console
windows with the Shift-Arrow keys ... but that
doesn't work.

For now I'm always using the mouse to change
window focus.

Any suggestions on what I can do to get
the Shift-Arrows keys (or some other sequence)
to work?

Thanks,

Emmett

On 14 Jan 2002 14:27:22 -0800, Emmett staggered into the Black Sun and
said:

Quote:> I have an IBM 600 ThinkPad running Linux and KDE.  I've read that you
> can "Alt-Tab" between console windows with the Shift-Arrow keys ...
> but that doesn't work.

> For now I'm always using the mouse to change window focus.

> Any suggestions on what I can do to get the Shift-Arrows keys (or some
> other sequence) to work?

Start an instance of the KDE terminal emulator "konsole", then use the
"New" button at the bottom left to start a couple more shells.  When you
press Shift-Leftarrow or Shift-Rightarrow in konsole, you will switch
between konsole terminals.  ( konsole and console are two rather
different things! )

In KDE, the default key combination to switch focus from one window to
another is Alt-Tab.  You can change it by going to the KDE Control
Center->Look and Feel->Key Bindings and using the dialog to change the
key for "Walk through windows" to whatever you want.

In the text console (NOTE:  This is what people mean when they talk
about "console"s) which you can get to by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 while in
X, you can switch from text console to text console by pressing
Alt-Leftarrow and Alt-Rightarrow.

Details count.  HTH,

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Uhhhh, let me ask the obvious question. If you
want to "Alt-Tab" between windows, how 'bout
trying "Alt-Tab"? Works for me on my KDE box.
Where the heck did "Shift-Arrow" come from?

BTW, just for the record, you can set key bindings
for such things under Control Center by going
to "Look and Feel", "Key Bindings".

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Quote:> Start an instance of the KDE terminal emulator "konsole", then use the
> "New" button at the bottom left to start a couple more shells.  When you
> press Shift-Leftarrow or Shift-Rightarrow in konsole, you will switch
> between konsole terminals.  ( konsole and console are two rather
> different things! )

OK, I'll bite.  What is the difference between konsole and console.

Norm (a kde neophyte) Levin

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:15:30 -0600, Norman Levin staggered into the
Black Sun and said:

console : Generally refers to one of the text-mode virtual consoles.
Support for these is compiled directly into the kernel 99.5% of the
time.  There are usually 6 of them, and they're called tty1 - tty6.  The
first one is opened very early on in the boot process, and provides a
place fo the kernel to dump boot messages.  They have capabilities
spelled out in the terminfo database under terminal type "linux",
including all the VT100 stuff + ANSI colors.  They consume very few system
resources, and you can count on them always being there.

konsole : KDE program designed as a replacement for xterm.  It requires
X and KDE to be running.  It emulates a linux console, and provides much
greater flexibility than the text console since you can resize a konsole
window, change the font, have more than one on the screen at a time, and
change the background (transparent konsole!  Wheee!)  However, it sucks
up lots more system resources, mostly because of all that X and KDE
overhead.

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Quote:> konsole : KDE program designed as a replacement for xterm.  It requires X
> and KDE to be running.  It emulates a linux console, and provides much
> greater flexibility than the text console since you can resize a konsole
> window, change the font, have more than one on the screen at a time, and
> change the background (transparent konsole!  Wheee!) However, it sucks up
> lots more system resources, mostly because of all that X and KDE overhead.

lots more (roughly ten times as much memory, and correspondingly slower)

may as well write it in Java (hmm - I've seen that, too ;-)

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