[kde-linux] How can I navigate in KDE without a mouse?

[Bob Loeffler]

Thanks for the quick answers, Kevin and Vytautas!

Alt+Tab did switch between the apps as you mentioned (I actually had only
the one app running, so I didn't notice anything when I tried it before),
but it didn't switch to the clock or anything in the taskbar at the bottom
of the screen, so I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and then the mouse started
working.  :-)

Thanks again!!!

Bob L.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Krammer [mailto:kevin.krammer at gmx.at] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:30 PM
To: kde-linux at kde.org
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] How can I navigate in KDE without a mouse?

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 21:12, Bob Loeffler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The guy who worked on our Linux box where KDE 2.x (?) resides is no 
> longer here, so I'm jumping in to try to fix a problem.  The system 
> time on the server is off, so I wanted to change it, but the mouse 
> doesn't work.  The keyboard works but I don't know how to move between 
> applications or the clock.  Currently, focus is on the Xconsole 
> window, so if I do a Shift-left or right arrow (as I saw mentioned in 
> the list archives), I'm just moving around within the Xconsole window 
> text.  How can I switch to the clock or another application with just 
> the keyboard?  Also, I think the mouse (ps2)

Usually that would be ALT+Tab, like on Windows.

However, while this is a crude solution, I guess it would be faster to just
restart the X server by CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, unless you have some unsaved and
important work in some application (but from your description it sounds you
don't)

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
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