Dooooooooooooork!
Mar. 26th, 2008 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSouhm, yeah. Sorcy = helladork.
No, seriously, I am geeking out about how cool it is to be able to do the whole computer thing just with my keyboard and not have to use my mouse at all, what is wrong with me, damnit, damnit!
Because, I mean, it was cool enough when I finally started seriously using apple-tab to switch programs. "Oh, I am typing a livejournal entry but Keira just said something I want to reply to in IM? No problem!" But just now, I learned that I can open chats with people in Adium without using my mouse at all -- apple-/ to open the contacts list, arrows to navigate the list, enter to open a new chat with a new person. Holyshit, so easy.
Soyeah. Now all I *really* need is an easier way to swap from tab to tab in Safari (c'mon Apple, shift-alt-twiddle-arrow? what the hell is *wrong* with you, that's four keys! Get it down to two, bitte.) and I will be a happyKat.
(Or, I mean, I could start using Firefox. Which I probably should do anyways, as it's got a handful of better features that I'm too lazy to go hunting for in Safari --ability to have multiple search boxes, for instance, and not just google.)
Alsoalso, I apparently need to learn Dvorak, so I can train myself to stop hitting twiddle-Q instead of twiddle-W. Computers are weird.
....
Yeah, that's all. Go play The World's Hardest Game, which I'm sure *isn't*, but is tricky enough to be annoying and addictive and I'm stuck SO BAD on level ten, but I'm getting better, and I've only died eighty times on this level. Hate.
~Sor
MOOP!
No, seriously, I am geeking out about how cool it is to be able to do the whole computer thing just with my keyboard and not have to use my mouse at all, what is wrong with me, damnit, damnit!
Because, I mean, it was cool enough when I finally started seriously using apple-tab to switch programs. "Oh, I am typing a livejournal entry but Keira just said something I want to reply to in IM? No problem!" But just now, I learned that I can open chats with people in Adium without using my mouse at all -- apple-/ to open the contacts list, arrows to navigate the list, enter to open a new chat with a new person. Holyshit, so easy.
Soyeah. Now all I *really* need is an easier way to swap from tab to tab in Safari (c'mon Apple, shift-alt-twiddle-arrow? what the hell is *wrong* with you, that's four keys! Get it down to two, bitte.) and I will be a happyKat.
(Or, I mean, I could start using Firefox. Which I probably should do anyways, as it's got a handful of better features that I'm too lazy to go hunting for in Safari --ability to have multiple search boxes, for instance, and not just google.)
Alsoalso, I apparently need to learn Dvorak, so I can train myself to stop hitting twiddle-Q instead of twiddle-W. Computers are weird.
....
Yeah, that's all. Go play The World's Hardest Game, which I'm sure *isn't*, but is tricky enough to be annoying and addictive and I'm stuck SO BAD on level ten, but I'm getting better, and I've only died eighty times on this level. Hate.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2008-03-26 05:38 pm (UTC)And tab swapping in Safari is apple-{ or }
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on 2008-03-26 07:33 pm (UTC)Which is still three buttons. Here, Sorcy, I'll teach you how to make your life so much easier!
Go to Apple Menu, System Preferences. Select Keyboard & Mouse. Select the Keyboard Shortcuts button. Oooh, lots of fun stuff here. Scroll all the way to the bottom. You'll see something called 'Application Keyboard Shortcuts'. Click to select it, then click the '+' button below. A dialogue appears! (Fight, Item, Magic, Flee)
Select Safari from the Application drop-down. In the 'Menu Title' Box, type the exact words 'Select Next Tab' (without quotes). You're typing in the exact name as it appears in the drop-down menu in Safari. Then, click in the 'Keyboard Shortcut' box, and enter your new keycombo. Restart Safari, and you now have enormous cosmic tab-switching power!
I find that Cmd-[ and Cmd-] are perfect for Previous/Next tabs of any stripe (including Adium, Safari, Terminal, etc.). Just two buttons to press, generally unused, and have a nice symmetry.
Note that you can go hog-wild with this power. Anything in a menu of an application can be mapped to any keycombo you desire. Have fun!
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on 2008-03-26 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-03-28 05:28 pm (UTC)~Sor