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I'm a VMware user and far too often I use keyboard shortcuts while programming. However, this has proved to be quite distressing as sometimes the VMware gets hold of it and turns off / pauses (Ctrl+Z) the virtual machine.
Is there a way to disable keyboard shortcuts on VMware? Has anyone here ever found a workaround?
I use AutoHotKey (are you running VMWare on Windows ?) to disable certain shortcuts. You can find this tool here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/
It's open source and I quite like it. Can be used for automation tasks, but you can also have it respond differently to different windows. With some AHK scripting, I think you should be able to fix your problem.
The site had got loads of tutorials too on writing handy scripts.
Good luck.
If it is Ok for you - here's a bit of hacky solution which is very simple - just use ResHacker program to get rid of those annoying accelerators (they are defined as resources in vmware.exe).
This was very annoying to me as well. I finally resolved it for me by doing the following:
Open the VMWare Workstation preferences (Edit menu | Preferences)
Select the Input tab
Check the "Grab keyboard and mouse input on key press" option.
This way, if your mouse drifts outside the virtual machine's window, when you type someting, the virtual machine will "regain" focus.
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When I am using Awesome-WM under Linux Mint 13 "Maya" MATE, sometimes I need to open the File Manager "Caja". But when I launch caja, the wallpaper changes to the one I set under MATE instead of the one in rc.lua. I have tried
sudo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background false
but it seems useless.
How can I keep my settings under awesome-wm? Or I should set the 2 backgrounds the same?
You could try setting your wallpaper using feh.
Create a .fehbg file in your $HOME and put this in:
feh --bg-scale '/path/to/wallpaper.jpg'
..then save it.
Then in your autostart script just add sh $HOME/.fehbg & then try restarting your DE. If it still persists after opening Caja, then I am not sure about that since I am totally unfamiliar with Caja, rather, I am not familiar with MATE at all.
I think what's happening is that caja is set to 'manage' your desktop. That means it'll change your wallpaper to the one set in MATE, and probably display desktop icons as well, e.g., Computer, Home, etc. This has always been a problem for me when using alternative window managers on Ubuntu, because nautilus does it as well. With nautilus the behaviour can be turned off using the terminal flag --no-desktop. caja seems to be a descendant of nautilus and a quick Google shows references to the same terminal option for it as well. So I suggest you try
caja --no-desktop
and see if that works for you.
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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 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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Random keyboard key assignment corruption in Windows XP
This isn't a programming question but I'll try to get away with it. WinXP SP3 machine. Every so often (sometimes several times a day) my keyboard (or Windows, or something) decides that it is going to translate the keys I am typing. It's always the same behaviour : specifically
Q and A are transposed.
W and Z are transposed.
the digit keys (the row below the F1-F12 keys) become random punctuation characters.
and several other random shufflings of keys occur. Interestingly:
the numeric keypad still works
the corruptions are always associated with a
particular application. Exiting the application (e.g.
Delphi, or Chrome), and restarting the app. cures the problem.
the same problem occurs on my laptop at home, I guess because I run the same apps.
Ctl-Q and Ctl-A are also transposed
I'm convinced that something I'm running is trashing something but I have no idea where to look. I'm hoping someone reads this and says "oh yeah..."
Yes, I have AV software running.
The application may have been (accidentally) setup to use either a different locale, a particular IME (Input Method Editor) or a different keyboard layout.
Do you have the Language Bar showing? (under Keyboards and Languages in the Regional and Language Options in Control Panel on Vista).
Make sure its visible, check out the current settings. Checking the Show additional language bar icons in the taskbar option may be useful too.
Then launch the offending application and see if the selected locale/keyboard/IME changes. If so change it back to the usual one.
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How can I improve the look and feel of my Linux desktop to suit my programming needs?
I found Compiz and it makes switching between my workspaces (which is something I do all the time to make the most of my 13.3" screen laptop) easy and look great - so what else don't I know about that make my programming environment more productive/pleasing?
#Rob Cooper - thanks for the heads-up, hope this reword addresses the issues
I found that the best programming experience comes from having quick access all your tools. This means getting comfortable with basic command line acrobatics and really learning keyboard shortcuts, flags, and little productivity apps.
I find that most of my workflow comes down to just a few apps and commands:
Terminator
SVN commands - ci, co, status, log, etc.
Command Line FTP
Vim
Basic Command lines operations (cd, rm, mv, cp, touch, grep, and std i/o redirection comprise 80% of my work day)
Not to say that GUI apps aren't necessary. A few I use:
Diffmerge
RapidSVN
Filezilla
VirtualBox
GnomeDo (this really should be first)
When it comes down to it, the real improvement in programming experience comes from just that - programming experience. Just pick a set of tools and stick with them until you know them inside and out.
I've used by Ubuntu desktop for some coding sessions. I haven't settled on an IDE, but if I'm not using gedit, I'll use emacs as my editor. Sometimes I need to ssh to a remote server and edit from there, in which case emacs is preferred. I'm just not the vi(m) type.
Maybe I'll try out Eclipse one day...
I love Compiz, but it does nothing for my coding experience. It's just eye candy. You can do desktop switching and Alt-Tab just fine without it. Aside from that, Jeff Atwood's recommendations for good chair, multi-monitors, and simplistic background still apply for me.
If you have half decent 3D acceleration on board, CompizFusion adds attractive desktop effects like mapping your workspaces onto a cube using that to switch between them/move windows between them. Looks pretty and improves general usability - great!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz