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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench features
Message-ID: <0566.AA0566@americ>
Date: 3 Jun 89 12:50:00 GMT
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In article <457@antares.uucp> pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
|How about changing the function of the A-N and A-M keys very slightly, so
|that A-N would always return you to the workbench screen as before, and
|A-M would bring up the custom screen, but A-M again would roll through
|the custom screens. It will be important to for the system to remember
|which custom screen is on the top, so that toggling between the Worbench
|and the custom screen you were using last does not require rolling through
|the custom screens each time.

<> Dan Howell writes:
<>The program QMouse does this.  The functionality of Amiga-M under QMouse
<>is to bring the current front screen to the back.  Amiga-N still brings
<>the Workbench, so pressing Amiga-N followed by Amiga-M will return to
<>the right custom screen, if you were in a custom screem to begin with.
<>QMouse has a lot of other neat features, and is only 4K long.  I recommend
<>it hightly.
<>It should be available from the comp.binaries.amiga archive server.  I
<>think it's under the intuition directory.  See other messages in this
<>group about how to access it.

I've been using Qmouse for about a month now and nothing could drag me
away. Its packed with features such as a sun mouse emulator that activates
the window that the mouse pointer is currently in, A mouse pointer blanker
that is adjustable as to length of inactivity b4 blanking, keypresses
also blank the pointer. What I really like is the Popcli feature that allows
you to specify a command to assign the L-A ESC key combo. I use it to 
pop a shell with a full screen window. Oh did I forget the mouse accel-
larator ? The multiple configurable L-A [anykey] hotkeys ? There is a 
screen blanker, AND a feature that allows you to set the stack size
automagically for any spawned CLI's. Every option can be turned off or
modified thru command line or script file. Very heavy duty program for 
it's size. Thanks to all who contributed to the making of this fine prog.

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