Alright so. :l

During the entire move I just made this last week, I obviously moved my computer last, and hooked it up first. I can't work in silence, and needed moosic.

So!

During that entire time, my wireless mouse had gone totally balls-out missing. Lucky, I know how to navigate my entire computer without the assistance of a mouse, on-screen or otherwise.

How far can you get, /gc/? ;D

I expect FW and a few savvy others to know their way around, but what about the rest of you?

Shut down your machine, unplug your mouse, boot it back up, and see how far you get. :3

There have been a lot of times where I used the keyboard instead of a mouse. The problem is, most modern OSes are optimized for mouse navigation than keyboard.


Sometimes I like to boot up DOS just to have fun without my mouse...

Okay... I think I did it... I may have worn my Tab key to shreds, but I did it. :3

I had to do it seeing as my dang mouse broke.

I can just use my touchpad.

Without cheating, I also managed to open up a browser and post on this thread. It wouldn't select Chrome for some reason, so I had to use IE. <.<

Also my dad managed to install mouse driver software without a mouse (on a mouse with un-automatic installing).

Tell me how, kthx. :u I can't even open the internet.

XP.

I looked at the spoiler, only because I wanted to make sure you were giving him the right info :3

>:l

You dare ask if I give the right tech info?

Meanie. ;-;

I prefer using the mouse for mental convenience, but productivity-wise I know by experience that the keyboard is much faster. I can navigate within windows, within the browser, shortcut to the toolbar's searchbox, find files, open specific dialogs much faster than mouse can, browse the internet, answer dialogs or click specific buttons that have underscored letters, switch tabs, scroll files, bring up their contextual menus, and copy/paste/rename them without context dialog altogether, and select multiple items aswell as go to specific files in a folder with lots of items instantly. I usually do these things on mom's laptop since the touchpad is crap.

However, I have a much harder time getting to the QuickLaunch buttons and the system tray or browsing options on Winamp aswell as selecting multiple items while skipping some.

Grr... I was able to get around to this page from start without using my mouse, but seeing as I'm not as good with computers as anyone else on this forum, I can't do it any where near fast. Thankfully, I can edit this once I post it....

EDIT: Now, I can use my mouse....

Hey, only just noticed this thread now xD

Well, on a backup computer I have I can't use a mouse, so I almost entirely rely on different key bindings and the tab key a lot. I use LXDE/Ubuntu 9.10 there.

On my main computer (KDE 4.5/Ubuntu 10.10) I very rarely use the mouse in normal usage (usually for more advanced application interaction and games), preferring to use standard keyboard shortcuts instead. Some of my favourites:

• Alt+F2 = Run (I usually use this to start applications)
• Alt+F4 = Close Application
• Alt+F5 = Open Application Launcher (Lancelot)
• Ctrl+Escape = Open Task Manager

Alt+F2 eh? I use win key + R. Actually... yknow, how come there isn't a Linux key on KBs?? Discrimination I cry! >O

Moving through the computer (well, the internet) using only my keyboard isn't that hard. I just have to use the "Find key term" a lot, and posting here isn't too hard either (I'm so glad I know the BB Codes)