On Sunday 26 December 2010 08:11 AM, Tim wrote: > Transparency's all very well for shuffling windows about, trying to find > the one you want behind the currently front-most one. But it's > appalling to try and use a terminal or application when you're seeing > what's behind it through what you're actually trying to look at. > Actually I set my terminals to an opacity of 90-95% just so that I can do that, but only on laptops where I don't have enough screen space. Often it so happens I want to look at some webpage/email/source code (or an occasional watch a video while work ;)) as I type at the terminal. On a sub 14" laptop, there is no better way to do it. ... > I find Macs like those Lego bricks with six bumps on top (a grid of 3 by > 2). They can *only* be used in certain ways. You're stuffed if you > want to do something different. > Very well put, all around me in the academic community I find people toting their Macs and recommending Macs to me and they say "its so easy to use". But then I learn on a Mac you can't do this or that, or some usual way of doing things on linux have to be done in some not so straightforward way. For me the worst are the keystroke -> character mapping, specially the control keys (I am an Emacs user). -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
