From: Jeff Barr (jeff@vertexdev.com)
Date: Sat Dec 09 2000 - 17:14:38 PST
John says,
> With my new laptop, I also got an M$ optical mouse with a large thumb
> button. With it mapped to "Minimize", I can run VNC in full-screen mode
> (in which I can't tell the difference between sitting in front of a native
> Unix box and my VNC'd view of one) and simply hit the thumb button to take
> myself out to Windows. It's sweet.
Also try mapping the middle button (the mouse wheel) to "Back". It makes
browsing
really easy since you need not keep dragging your mouse to the top of the
browser windows.
Sadly, that new mouse is the first MS mouse that does not work well in the
left hand. Given that BillG is a southpaw, I am surprised.
Jeff;
-----Original Message-----
From: John Klassa [mailto:klassa@cisco.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 3:29 PM
To: Joseph S. Barrera III
Cc: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de; fork@Xent.Com
Subject: Re: Winders software that you can't live without
>>>>> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, "Joseph" == Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
Joseph> We use Exceed where we work. Is StarNet better? Why?
Don't know, but have you tried VNC? I prefer it over just about every
other remote-X-display solution, in large part because it's stateless.
That is, at work, I can hook my laptop up to my already-running X display
on a Unix machine, and pick right up where I left off the day before. At
home, if I want to check on something I left running at work, I just bring
up the same display and everything is as I left it.
With my new laptop, I also got an M$ optical mouse with a large thumb
button. With it mapped to "Minimize", I can run VNC in full-screen mode
(in which I can't tell the difference between sitting in front of a native
Unix box and my VNC'd view of one) and simply hit the thumb button to take
myself out to Windows. It's sweet.
Anyway, I figure you've probably used VNC, but I wanted to plug it again
anyway. :-)
John
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