make my thinkpad into a typewriter

[Dave Mason]

> though maybe what i should do is get more used to switching virtual
> desktops

That's what I have done for almost a decade on linux and 6 years on
MacOSX (I've never used Windows more than casually, so I don't know if
there's a similar facility).

On linux I have the keypad keys set to 9 different virtual desktops so I
can go to a full-screen emacs in one keystroke (or all my Firefox
windows, or myth, or squeak).  I used this with fvwm for years and
showed a sticky little 3x3 pager in the bottom-right corner of my
screen, but now have it with Gnome (or KDE - not sure which as this
isn't my daily machine now).

I had a similar setup on MacOSX with a 3rd-party switcher, but I now use
Spaces which makes me hold down the control key plus the keypad - but
I've more or less gotten used to that extra digit motion.

../Dave
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