Ion3 a good light GUI.
Fabian Braennstroem
f.braennstroem at gmx.de
Fri Jan 6 06:36:05 UTC 2006
Hi,
* Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <celtic at sairyx.org> wrote:
> Hey Joyce,
>
> Good to see people using ion3.
>
> I think you'll find splitting windows and other keybindings can be
> helpful at times - my most used key would be F2; open a new terminal.
> This is a tad faster than using the memory! If you use `apt-cache
> search' from a command line, you can try searching for your applications
> that way.
>
> Some more helpful commands include F3 to run a command without opening a
> terminal - such as konqueror. Alt+C will close your current window,
> helpful to not have to use the mouse :) Alt+S splits the current frame
> in half horizontally, `Alt+K, S' will split it vertically. Alt+R enters
> resize mode (press a cursor key to extend in that direction,
> shift+cursor key to retract!). `Alt+K, N' and `Alt+K, P' for next and
> previous frame respectively. `Alt+N' and `Alt+P' will let you move up
> and down between horizontally split frames.
>
> Workspaces are helpful: I keep my GAIM buddy list, terminal from which I
> play music, and Thunderbird in a separate workspace. Press F9 to create
> a workspace (press enter twice at the prompts to make it unnamed); Alt+,
> and Alt+. (comma and period) move between workspaces. Alt+C on the last
> empty frame in a workspace which isn't your last will destroy it.
>
> I hope this helps you some!
Did you try wmii yet? It's a nice one too :-)
Greetings!
Fabian
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