Re: Keyboard controls in Gnome?

[Frank <sotl155360 earthlink net>]

Daniel Serodio wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 02:16:52AM +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>
> > It's not a specifically Gnome thing, but there is a way to
> > control the pointer via the keyboard in X. I found it in the
> > WindowMaker README (/usr/doc/WindowMaker/README) by accident,
> > and it came in extremely handy when I recently discovered that
> > my mouse objected to being covered in coffee.
> >
> > You enable and disable it by hitting control-shift-numberlock.
> > Apparently the speaker should beep but mine never does.
> >
> > Then you use the number pad to move around:
>
>         Cool! Never heard of this before... Thanks for the tip!

Works great in KDE too. And my speaker beeped, But! If I was in a very very
quite work area and had not been listing for it I would not have heard it.
You might say it does need a little more volume to be heard.

Frank



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