power-user's desktop is *tuned*, not just pre-set (was: Mac OS X v. Linux)

[Eric Dunbar]

Ok all, I MEANT `. It is pretty universal on [English North] American
keyboards, and, given that many other countries also use the American
layout (or a minor variant thereof) it's pretty wide-spread world-wide
(that's a hell of a lot of users).

I just refer to it as tilde b/c that's what I'm used to describing it as.

As for ctrl-page/up page down. NO MATTER WHAT (unless you have one of
the weirdest keyboards ever) still have to leave home. The advantage
to a ctrl or alt-` (aka tilde) is that your hand (as a righty, 90%+ of
users) NEVER leaves home and you can continue to use the mouse.
Keeping your hand on home minimises errors.

Fewer movements = fewer mistakes = less frustration!

I'm not talking about a complete revamp of the system. Merely filling
a niche in what is an incomplete solution for managing windows.

Anyway, I can see I've managed to wake up the Windows crowd so I'll leave it be.

Eric.

> It's quite simple on the keyboards of both my laptop and desktop: press
> the right Control key with your right thumb, leaving you with a choice
> of fingers from your right hand to hit Page Up/Page Down.
> 
> > alt-~ or ctrl-~ are much better solutions since they require only one
> > hand to activate whilst you can leave your hand on the mouse, and are
> > something that ought to be implemented at the system level
> > (GNOME/KDE/your favourite window manager)
> 
> At least in the US layout, this is a three-finger combination
> (Alt-Shift-backtick), which is more complicated than the two-finger
> combination.  It's also staggeringly less intuitive.