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If you look at http://bambuser.com/v/2846316 you can see a developer with two monitors, in the video this person is spliting the screens into multiple outputs of an editor. And switching the content of them... Does anyone know how to do something like this ? Or the editor he/she is using ? I think the distro is Archlinux and the website on the movie is http://japh.se
EDIT: Ahhhhh found it. Depends on the type of the Windows Managers ! :D I was looking for Tiling windows managers :D
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_manager
Could anyone recommend me one ? Thank you
Looks like awesome to me, which is very nice for that and is my windows manager on arch linux. You can also have a look at xmonad which is quite equivalent but older.
For the editor its not clear for me since I dont see him use it so I cant distinguish between vim and emacs.
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I'm a noob at programming and I want to expand my knowledge. I use Windows 10 and I was thinking of using Pop OS, but I'm still not too sure. I want something with a GUI (obviously aha), but also something that has a good terminal for a beginner like me, thanks! :)
Edit: Also, I want to game on it too :)
It depends what your goals are.
If the goal is to gain a deeper understanding of Linux and gain some confidence with administering your system with the command line, then I would recommend installing a distro like Arch Linux, maybe in a VM, just to go through the process. This will teach you about mounting drives, formatting them, basic package installation. For a bit of a higher-level experience, Debian.
If your goal is to install an OS that's easy to use right out of the box and you don't want to get into Linux admin tasks, then something like Pop!_OS is a good pick. Also Ubuntu or MX Linux.
I would recommend ubuntu for the begin and later on something like fedora.
If design is important to you I would recommend elementry os.
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iTerm for the mac has an awesome feature which allows you to ctrl-click on a filename in the terminal. (i.e. from an ls or find etc), and the terminal will attempt to launch that file using the default application for the given file's type.
I'm familiar with various ways of opening a file from cygwin using a command, but am more interested if anyone knows of a method to mouse click to open a file.
Was wondering if anyone has seen/used such a feature in cygwin/putty?
This is implemented in the Mintty terminal along with a lot of other nice features so use that instead of the default cygwin one, you should already have it, if you don't download it from here.
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For example, Impulse Tracker for DOS was a nice music production app that was among the first to create a smooth mouse using glyphs generated on the fly in the characters located near the current position of the mouse. (Read here for a better description of what I mean).
So, I'm just wondering if that can be done in Linux terminals (e.g. the tty1-6 terminals or Gnome Terminal). Is it possible?
(EDIT: Should I post this on unix.stackexchange.com instead?)
Seeing as the terminal itself (and not the application) usually sets the font being used, I don't think this is possible. For the tty1-6 terminals, you could use a framebuffer to accomplish this, if you were that dedicated to the idea. With a terminal emulator on a desktop environment, I do not believe this is possible.
Would GPM accomplish what you're looking for, with a lot less hassle?
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I'm looking for a tool that will tell me what my keyboard is sending to the operating system when i push different keys.
This is to help me answer this question How to get Cmd-left/right working with iTerm2 and Vim (without requiring .vimrc changes)? which has me trying to figure out why Vim treats my iTerm2 mapping of Cmd-left to Escape-[H differently from Home.
I tried unix's read, and it says that Home and Cmd-left both produce "^[[H". I'm hoping that read is misleading me, and that some other tool will show how Home and Cmd-left are different (note: when I say, Cmd-left in this paragraph, it is when iTerm2's mapping is turned on).
Thanks!
You're doing all this in a terminal, right?
I'm afraid you're not going to do much better than read (my preferred approach is to do cat > file, type, press ^D, and then look at the file in a hex editor).
With regard to the underlying question, it's worth hunting for options in your terminal emulator. Right now it's emulating a terminal which doesn't distinguish between HOME and CMD+LEFT. It may be possible to tell it to emulate a different terminal, which does.
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This is not a programming question per se, but this is certainly about something which would help increasing my programming productivity.
In KDE, one can assign short-cuts to particular windows. This eliminates alt-tabbing completely and, is very very convenient when multiple apps(browser, console, emacs etc) are open.
My question is - can window short cuts be assigned in XFCE4 ? And if yes, how ? I very recently switched to XFCE from KDE4 and would appreciate any help regarding this.
TIA.
I'm using xdotool.
For example command below moves Firefox to foreground:
xdotool search --onlyvisible --name 'Mozilla Firefox' windowraise
You can update your keyboard settings with needed parameters (Applications Menu -> Settings -> Settings Manager -> Keyboard):