is there a keyboard-shortcut for launching pterm?
occasionally my mouse goes mad (every movement is interpreted as a right-click etc.) and i don’t have another possibility than to hit the switch for getting out of QNX.
*martin
dfkt <dfkt69@yahoo.com> wrote:
is there a keyboard-shortcut for launching pterm?
occasionally my mouse goes mad (every movement is interpreted as a right-click etc.) and i don’t have another possibility than to hit the switch for getting out of QNX.
accessing a pterm would be more elegant for shutting down, methinks >
You can use to move between apps, and to move through
elements withing apps. is activate I think.
In any event, it’s possible your mouse is flakey. I have a mouse that
shorts out or something every once in a while and it goes screwy afterwards.
The same mouse in Windows seems to recover, but it still has these pauses
every once in a while when it shorts.
I suggest to do ‘shutdown/exit-to-text-mode’ as soon as you boot. Then
login and start Photon (ph). From now on, if you hit
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace you’ll drop into text mode instead of login
window. So, you just start ‘ph’ again and mouse works, no need to
reboot.
dfkt wrote:
is there a keyboard-shortcut for launching pterm?
occasionally my mouse goes mad (every movement is interpreted as a right-click etc.) and i don’t have another possibility than to hit the switch for getting out of QNX.
accessing a pterm would be more elegant for shutting down, methinks >
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*martin
You can also hit ctrl+enter to bring up the desktop menu.
Then use the arrow keys to select the pterm.
Donald
Igor Kovalenko <kovalenko@home.com> wrote:
: I suggest to do ‘shutdown/exit-to-text-mode’ as soon as you boot. Then
: login and start Photon (ph). From now on, if you hit
: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace you’ll drop into text mode instead of login
: window. So, you just start ‘ph’ again and mouse works, no need to
: reboot.
: - igor
: dfkt wrote:
:>
:> is there a keyboard-shortcut for launching pterm?
:>
:> occasionally my mouse goes mad (every movement is interpreted as a right-click etc.) and i don’t have another possibility than to hit the switch for getting out of QNX.
:>
:> accessing a pterm would be more elegant for shutting down, methinks
:>
:> –
:> *martin
:>
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dfkt <dfkt69@yahoo.com> wrote:
Previously, Donald Lalonde wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
You can also hit ctrl+enter to bring up the desktop menu.
Then use the arrow keys to select the pterm.
ctrl+enter doesn’t work
(and i do NOT have windows-keys on my keyboard either - it’s an old one)
Try ENTER
That gives me the menu you get when you use the right button, and then
the cursor keys let you select an item.
Previously, Donald Lalonde wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
You can also hit ctrl+enter to bring up the desktop menu.
Then use the arrow keys to select the pterm.
ctrl+enter doesn’t work
(and i do NOT have windows-keys on my keyboard either - it’s an old one)
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*martin
Previously, pete@qnx.com wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
dfkt <> dfkt69@yahoo.com> > wrote:
is there a keyboard-shortcut for launching pterm?occasionally my mouse goes mad (every movement is interpreted as a right-click etc.) and i don’t have another possibility than to hit the switch for getting out of QNX.
accessing a pterm would be more elegant for shutting down, methinks >
You can use to move between apps, and to move through
elements withing apps. is activate I think.
this only works, if a pterm is already open.
and most of the time the mouse crashes because of the voyager browser - whilst surfing i only have voyager running, mediaplayer maybe - but no pterm.
In any event, it’s possible your mouse is flakey. I have a mouse that
shorts out or something every once in a while and it goes screwy afterwards.
The same mouse in Windows seems to recover, but it still has these pauses
every once in a while when it shorts.
–
*martin
Previously, Igor Kovalenko wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
I suggest to do ‘shutdown/exit-to-text-mode’ as soon as you boot. Then
login and start Photon (ph). From now on, if you hit
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace you’ll drop into text mode instead of login
window. So, you just start ‘ph’ again and mouse works, no need to
reboot.
- igor
this really works fine - thanks for helping!
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*martin
Previously, pete@qnx.com wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Try ENTER
That gives me the menu you get when you use the right button, and then
the cursor keys let you select an item.
thanks, this also works fine!
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*martin