I hope you solved your problem, I can fully understand the distress you must feel. I've just learned a lesson from you for use with my own laptop: carry a spare mouse plus a rescue CD. Bob Cochran On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 17:45, M. Fioretti wrote: > Hello, > > this is as embarassing as true. Please help > > I have a Red Hat 9 PC running the fluxbox window manager: right now I > have open: > > OpenOffice 1.0.2 > mutt > one xterm > > OOo is open on a just finished report which I absolutely HAVE to > convert to .doc format, spell check and email to a coworker before he > goes on the plane, ie in a few hours. > > The mouse just died on me. The cursor is on the far left of the root > window, and will move only vertically. I'm trying to clean it but it > won't listen. I can move from window to window with <ALT>+<TAB>, but I > can't access the the fluxbox menus, or, above all, the OOo ones. > > I'm going to smash the mouse with my feet if I can't spell check and > convert that file really soon. > > Is there any kind soul who would mail me some pure text version of all > the OOo keyboard shortcuts, and/or explain how to close the OOo file > dialog window (which also went partially off screen, so I can't even > see the buttons..., let alone move it) via keyboard? > > Same for fluxbox: how to move/resize/close windows via keyboard only. > > I'd use Google, if I only could start mozilla and push its buttons... > > TIA, > Tired and exhasperated Marco > > > -- > Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it > Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ > > Non si vive se non il tempo che si ama. C. A. Helvetius -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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