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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
It’s a relationship that is not just emotionally based (although that is a big part of it) but also intellectually based - we all know how to get stuff done in our OS of choice typically.

Like a car, it becomes somewhat of an extension of yourself, as long as it does what you want, and does not do what you do not.

I have custom keyboard shortcuts in linux and such a thing is actually trivial to do.

Must be a secret! It can depend on which flavor you have, but can you remap CapsLock to ctrl+c, and Esc to ctrl+v, and then NumLock to Esc, and make it remain thru sessions? I did done a lot of search but could not get CapsLock remap in Linux Mint.

The codecs issue is more substantive and you do have to tweak those things

I was referring to the legal issues for restricted proprietary types . I can convert files to non-proprietary, or purchase the proprietary licenses.

But i hope Linux will get better, God willing.

45 posted on 10/08/2015 10:01:58 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212

Remapping individual keys would be done with Xmodmap or at least that’s how I’ve done it. That’s a language unto itself and you need to google a bit and experiment a bit. You won’t get yourself into too much trouble doing it. It can be made to work trust me.

For shortcuts the DE typically provides hooks - like most DE’s will come shipped with CTRL-ALT-T launching the terminal but for example you could do CTRL-ALT-F to launch Firefox or I have combos that move me around amongst my desktops etc.

Yeah the notion of purchasing licenses to run certain software on linux is often quite a foreign one. In a corporate setting it probably happens a lot. For home users - hmmm - not so much.


46 posted on 10/08/2015 10:39:34 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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