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Gnome Key Bindings and IntelliJ IDEA<\/strong><\/p>\n

IntelliJ IDEA key bindings conflict with Gnome’s window manager. In IDEA, I can type CTRL-B to jump to a symbol definition. Normally, I’d type CTRL-ALT-LEFTARROW to navigate back to where I had come from. Gnome’s MetaCity intercepts that key mapping before IDEA sees it, and tries to move my desktop to the left. There are several other Gnome\/Metacity key bindings that conflict with IntelliJ IDEA. Rather than remap the keys in Gnome, I found that on Fedora, I could add the Windows key to the mix, and Gnome would ignore it, and pass it along to IDEA. This means that I can type CTRL-ALT-WINDOWS-LEFTARROW to navigate backward, and so forth.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in RHEL 5 and CentOS 5. The solution is to Go to the Gnome menu bar and select System > Preferences > Keyboard (not Keyboard Shortcuts). Then select the “Layout Options” tab, and expand the “Alt\/Win key behavior”. Then I select “Super is mapped to the Win-keys”.<\/p>\n

Every time I log in after that, Gnome tells me that my X keyboard settings conflict with my Gnome Keyboard settings, and it asks which I want to use. Selecting the Gnome settings is what I want.<\/p>\n

Bandwidth limiting downloads with ‘curl’ or ‘wget’<\/strong><\/p>\n

When downloading a large file, it’s nice to be polite to others on the network, so I use the --limit-rate<\/code> option for curl and wget:<\/p>\n

* curl -O --limit-rate 20k http:\/\/server.com\/linux.iso<\/code>
\n* wget --limit-rate=20k http:\/\/server.com\/linux.iso<\/code><\/p>\n

GDB TUI (text user interface)<\/strong><\/p>\n

After starting gdb, it’s possible to switch to its text user interface with CTRL-X, CTRL-A. Typing it a second time exits TUI mode.<\/p>\n

Vim C++ Auto completion with ctags<\/strong><\/p>\n

I appreciate full blown IDEs in Linux, but I like the quick start up time of vim. Until recently though, I didn’t have C++ auto completion (also known as vim omni completion). <\/p>\n

This got me up and running, and was a great resource:
\nhttp:\/\/vim.wikia.com\/wiki\/C%2B%2B_code_completion<\/a><\/p>\n

This would have been useful if I was a new comer to vim and ctags:
\nhttp:\/\/www.justlinux.com\/nhf\/Programming\/Introduction_to_C_Programming.html<\/a><\/p>\n

xdg-open, gnome-open, start, cygstart<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to easily open files and URLs from the command line
\nhttp:\/\/www.dwheeler.com\/essays\/open-files-urls.html<\/a><\/p>\n