Kornhornio's Discoveries

This blog is about useful software I've discovered. I may post a program of my own from time to time, but for the most part this blog is about cool little programs and utilities I've found. Most of them are free or open source programs. These are programs I use on my own computers, and they work well for me, but don't blame me if your computer ends up opening a hole in the Earth.

KDE mouse

Friday, April 07, 2006

If you've ever used KDE or Enlightenment in Linux, you might have noticed a feature that lets you move and resize windows without having to click on their title bars or borders. You can hold down the ALT key and move windows around with the left mouse button, or resize them with the right mouse button. The cool part is you can do this anywhere on the window, so you can save yourself a lot of mouse movement.

Martin Ankerl has made a little program called KDE Mouse to emulate this behavior in Windows.

A little note: while this program works great if you're mainly stuck in normal Windows applications (Word, Excel, whatever spyware-infested crap is floating around the internet in e-mails with "FW:" in the subject line), I've seen it cause problems with certain games. If you run into problems, you may need to close this program before starting up your games.

Edit: Updated link to Martin's new website AGAIN - stop moving!! :)

3 Comments:

At 9/08/2006 1:50 PM, Anonymous said...: Hey, thanks to your DMV tests, i successfully passed the test after three tries! Heh. I still have my tests and will post them up in a bit. I hope you stay active.

Thanks.
At 12/19/2006 9:03 AM, Anonymous said...: Ok, I'm posting this here as I see no other freaking way to contact you, neither on your webpage nor here.

I'm interested in porting your Pipes game to the GP2x (already contacted you about that some time ago). Now, JAVA is available for the 2x and it would make a nice holidayproject to rewrite the game so it uses SDL instead of the J2ME graphical routines. I'm not interested in rewriting all that other code, though so I'd love to have the sourcecode for the game. I don't care if it is not cleaned up or not well commented, I'm sure I can handle. If you are interested please get in contact asap (if not, still send me a quick: No) at: nagelfarÄTgmailDOTREMOVEcom
At 1/09/2007 4:49 PM, Anonymous said...: thank you so much for the DMV test page by you! i looked it over and took your test before the real one and passed!! almost all of the questions on your test were on the real test. im so happy i just wanted to thank you for that well ttyl

-Jasmine