Open a new WUT in Gimp?
(X-posted tomacosx.)
Does anyone else think its weird how pressing the keyboard shortcut for "New", as in new document, new window, etc.. you know, the good ole -N, you get a brand new terminal window!
While fixing this problem in X11 preferences (don't use keyboard shortcuts for X11, save them for the apps - now at least when I press the wrong key I don't generate a fresh login!), I noticed another useful choice: Unchecking "emulate 3 button mouse". No wonder the mouse sometimes acted wonky! I was a little confused because I got the Microsoft mouse when I bought my mac Mini; making "a damn good mouse" has always been an actual priority for Microsoft* and many people feel it* is the only product the company has always made correctly from the start.
If you're frustrated with your buttonless mouse, you should get the Microsoft one. Really! Before I had a mac, I used them all the time with my Linux systems. I used to be ashamed of them, I even have one where I scraped the word "Microsoft" off. I used to tell visitors that I wasn't using any Microsoft software, hoping they wouldn't look too closely at my mouse... But then, I met the latest Apple mouse, and it really made me question everything I had ever loved since I first learned 6502 assembler a quarter century ago so I didn't have to use that damned-slow Microsoft BASIC that replaced Apple's beautiful Integer BASIC on the ][+.
I never have quite mastered that special limp-wrist click required to use the buttonless mouse as a multibutton mouse. Whenever I am confronted with that abomination I always know that anywhere from 10% to 20% of the time it will do something other than click; conversely I've never had better than 50% luck getting it to do anything but the normal click or press-and-hold. Basically, being a guy who's had a history of working on cars and instead of performing surgery, as well as a rapid consumer of all things caffeinated, I'm neither steady-handed nor delicate, so the white mouse is totally out of the question. Besides, haven't there been studies about white mice and cancer or something like that?
*Microsoft felt that if they got the mouse perfect, people would use Windows no matter how much it sucked, but that if they had a shoddy mouse, even a perfect OS wouldn't save them. Apparently they were right!
**the low-cost Microsoft mouse. Not the feature-laden ones, no personal experience there
Does anyone else think its weird how pressing the keyboard shortcut for "New", as in new document, new window, etc.. you know, the good ole -N, you get a brand new terminal window!
While fixing this problem in X11 preferences (don't use keyboard shortcuts for X11, save them for the apps - now at least when I press the wrong key I don't generate a fresh login!), I noticed another useful choice: Unchecking "emulate 3 button mouse". No wonder the mouse sometimes acted wonky! I was a little confused because I got the Microsoft mouse when I bought my mac Mini; making "a damn good mouse" has always been an actual priority for Microsoft* and many people feel it* is the only product the company has always made correctly from the start.
If you're frustrated with your buttonless mouse, you should get the Microsoft one. Really! Before I had a mac, I used them all the time with my Linux systems. I used to be ashamed of them, I even have one where I scraped the word "Microsoft" off. I used to tell visitors that I wasn't using any Microsoft software, hoping they wouldn't look too closely at my mouse... But then, I met the latest Apple mouse, and it really made me question everything I had ever loved since I first learned 6502 assembler a quarter century ago so I didn't have to use that damned-slow Microsoft BASIC that replaced Apple's beautiful Integer BASIC on the ][+.
I never have quite mastered that special limp-wrist click required to use the buttonless mouse as a multibutton mouse. Whenever I am confronted with that abomination I always know that anywhere from 10% to 20% of the time it will do something other than click; conversely I've never had better than 50% luck getting it to do anything but the normal click or press-and-hold. Basically, being a guy who's had a history of working on cars and instead of performing surgery, as well as a rapid consumer of all things caffeinated, I'm neither steady-handed nor delicate, so the white mouse is totally out of the question. Besides, haven't there been studies about white mice and cancer or something like that?
*Microsoft felt that if they got the mouse perfect, people would use Windows no matter how much it sucked, but that if they had a shoddy mouse, even a perfect OS wouldn't save them. Apparently they were right!
**the low-cost Microsoft mouse. Not the feature-laden ones, no personal experience there