Contributor fwolfste

A "Replace all in current selection"- option would be nice.

When I hit the shortcut for Search (default: Ctrl-F) the main text window loses its focus only when the Search window is finally created. On medium-slow computers it happens to me that I want to search my text-to-search is actually pasted in where the cursor is and not in the search- texfield, because I am too fast/ computer too slow.
I see two ways of dealing with this: 1) buffer the text i type after hitting the search shortcut
2) having a search bar like in firefox. Also a "Live- Search" would be nice, that starts once I type

It often happens to me that i want to copy/paste with selection and middle mousebutton, but by accident mark something else in between. For this cases it would be GREAT if there is some means (e.g. keeping middle mouse button pressed) to access a history of the formerly marked contents.
E.g. I mark (dont know if "selected" is more correct in english, sorry) a url in a text document, want to paste it via middle mouse button into the firefox adress- bar but 1) there is something written in the adressbar already or 2) i accidentaly double- click. Now, I press the middle mouse button for longer (or click on a applet or press a hotkey or whatsoever) and chose the url that i actually wanted to paste.

I've seen a lot of webpages with tips'n'tricks how to get the most out of the shell(s), and its stunning. Really, really useful stuff. A convient tool or document that shows how to configure the/a shell (dont argue here whether zsh, bash, sh... there are other ideas for doing that) or even does the job for us would really make me happy for some moments.
Or a repository for those tricks (links anybody?), or a snippet- base or ... well, _something_ that eases or helps with shell configuration and shows me what other cool things we miss out there.

I find the idea of a "view source" button in the olpc project soo lovely that a software equivalent would be nice.
Maybe as applet: you click on the button, then on the window you want to see the code of. If you have the sources installed, the folder is opened otherwise its asked if you want to get the sources via synaptic.

:)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience /View_Source

UPDATE
Thanks to the community. Feature was allready implemented (alt+mbr)!


I use Alt+Mousedrag a lot to move windows around in gnome.
I would like to have a feature like this for resizing as well.
Problem is that resizing with the mouse is sometimes a bit tricky (window might be bigger than screen, no task bar to access context menu with right click etc).
For example CTRL+Shift+Mousedrag (or Alt+Rightmousedrag) would work nicely i think, as ctrl and shift are really close to each other and i do not know any application that uses this combo.