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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday October 03 2020, @02:27PM (11 children)

    by looorg (578) on Saturday October 03 2020, @02:27PM (#1060344)

    I don't really pay it to much attention anymore. The MS Windows standard is the standard these days and I think I just got used to it. Grab any border to resize, no need to go down to the bottom right corner anymore. All manipulations in the top right corner.

    I'm not even sure I remember all the other standards anymore. I did like the Amiga standard for some time but there are things in it now that are just weird, it didn't have min/max window but the top right icons was to change the window depth as in bringing things into focus/front and putting things behind. A useful thing back then as you didn't have the same screen-size we have today. I don't really miss having to go to the bottom right corner to resize the window. Top left was to close the window.

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  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Saturday October 03 2020, @04:00PM (10 children)

    by richtopia (3160) on Saturday October 03 2020, @04:00PM (#1060372) Homepage Journal

    I agree. I'm no fan of MS products but I am frustrated when hotkeys are missing when I spin up a new Linux distro or DE. Close & minimize in the corner, dragging and resizing windows with the borders, alt+tab, and what typically is missing is super hotkeys, like moving a window to half of the screen. Super+r or Super+e is also missing in most default Linux setups, and I really miss that fast access to a file browser or run window.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday October 04 2020, @01:13PM (6 children)

      by Arik (4543) on Sunday October 04 2020, @01:13PM (#1060653) Journal
      "I really miss that fast access to a file browser or run window."

      It's called a terminal.
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      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Thursday October 08 2020, @07:07PM (5 children)

        by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 08 2020, @07:07PM (#1062194)
        A terminal is not a file browser.
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        • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @09:42PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @09:42PM (#1062246)

          ls and cd still work just fine for me.

          • (Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 08 2020, @09:50PM (2 children)

            by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 08 2020, @09:50PM (#1062248)
            Yeah? Is there an equivalent of image thumbnails?
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            • (Score: 4, Informative) by DECbot on Thursday October 08 2020, @10:35PM (1 child)

              by DECbot (832) on Thursday October 08 2020, @10:35PM (#1062269) Journal

              $ lsix

              Here's the how to [ostechnix.com].

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              • (Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday October 08 2020, @10:36PM

                by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 08 2020, @10:36PM (#1062270)
                Ah I love learning something new, thank you!
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          • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Thursday October 15 2020, @11:36PM

            by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday October 15 2020, @11:36PM (#1065222) Homepage
            You don't even need ls to show you files if your shell offers you instantanious filtering by filename with tab-completion.
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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:06PM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 04 2020, @05:06PM (#1060693) Homepage Journal

      Alt-F2 takes care of your "run" needs in most Linux setups. If you didn't already have half a dozen tabs open in a terminal emulator.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @01:34AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @01:34AM (#1061476)

        Alt-F2 working implies the operation of one's Linux system within the crutches of a desktop environment.

        Those of use who eschew desktop environments as the crutches they are don't have Alt-F2 wired up to do anything, unless we damn well want it to do something. Then we modify our Fvwm2 config so it works, exactly the way we want at the time.