Windows 10 shell environment
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@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
I hate that crap
I love it! You can copy paste using a single finger and without fiddling around with context menus!
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@bb36e said in Windows 10 shell environment:
@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
I hate that crap
I love it! You can copy paste using a single finger and without fiddling around with context menus!
How often do you use copy paste using the mouse? I mean it makes sense for files, but pasting text with middle-click is plain vicious! you have to have perfect hand-eye coordination and strategically middle-click exactly in the right place where your cursor is not present. And if you have to move your cursor there first, why not CTRL + V?
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@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
you have to have perfect hand-eye coordination and strategically middle-click exactly in the right place where your cursor is not present.
It made more sense on the mice that were in use at the time it was more widely prevalent. The designs were nowhere near as ergonomic as now, and a 1024×768 display was a very large one (800×600 was much more common), so fonts were large enough that pasting was easy enough. PRIMARY selection transfers work well once you're used to them, but they're very different to the CLIPBOARD.
However, element-level focus-follows-mouse can DIAF. If you don' know what I'm talking about, you're a lucky bastard.
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@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
@bb36e said in Windows 10 shell environment:
@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
I hate that crap
I love it! You can copy paste using a single finger and without fiddling around with context menus!
How often do you use copy paste using the mouse? I mean it makes sense for files, but pasting text with middle-click is plain vicious! you have to have perfect hand-eye coordination and strategically middle-click exactly in the right place where your cursor is not present. And if you have to move your cursor there first, why not CTRL + V?
I use a mouse to paste all the time, but I don't really use the middle click option - I use "right click to paste" instead, so I just right-click in the terminal and paste the (usually copied from a txt file or something) command.
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@sloosecannon said in Windows 10 shell environment:
@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
@bb36e said in Windows 10 shell environment:
@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
I hate that crap
I love it! You can copy paste using a single finger and without fiddling around with context menus!
How often do you use copy paste using the mouse? I mean it makes sense for files, but pasting text with middle-click is plain vicious! you have to have perfect hand-eye coordination and strategically middle-click exactly in the right place where your cursor is not present. And if you have to move your cursor there first, why not CTRL + V?
I use a mouse to paste all the time, but I don't really use the middle click option - I use "right click to paste" instead, so I just right-click in the terminal and paste the (usually copied from a txt file or something) command.
It is different, it changes the cursor location first, giving you a chance to double check.
Edit: Ah, no context menu? that is worse than middle click.
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@dse said in Windows 10 shell environment:
Edit: Ah, no context menu? that is worse than middle click.
No, but I use the (menu) key for that. Plus I never use the context menu - the only use for it is copy and paste when I'm in the terminal.
I'm not talking in normal applications, of course. In those, the mouse better work 100% normally.
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Doesn't Cygwin work on Win10? On my win7 I use Cygwin64 terminal. It uses Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins for cut and paste respectively, which has the advantages of being usable in most Windows applications as well, and on Gnome for that matter. If you learn ctrl-ins and shift-ins then you can use the same shortcuts everywhere. (Including Mac, once you connect a real keyboard to it.)
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@owatson said in Windows 10 shell environment:
Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins
Old school! That's the IBM CUA stuff, still living on as a ghost in the GUI shell…
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@owatson said in Windows 10 shell environment:
It uses Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins for cut and paste respectively, which has the advantages of being usable in most Windows applications as well,
Almost. Old-school windows was ctrl+ins for copy, shift-del for cut, and shift-ins for paste
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@dcon Oh, right. Yeah that's what it is. My fingers just do the respective things automatically without me actually knowing what i pressed.
