[mtoledo]

I don't use the mouse except for interacting with flash inside the browser.

For the browser I usually use a mix of firefox's "mouseless browsing" and search with ' key.

The shell is bad for copy/pasting with only the keyboard. Even if ctrl+alt+c/v copies and pastes, selecting without mouse is really troublesome. I run shell inside emacs.

For changing desktops, I have hotkeys ctrl+alt+1/5 for each of my 5 desktops. I usually keep 2 windows maximized at once so I'm always at most 2 (usually just 1) key presses from any window (instead of following an alt+tab app cycle or a alt+ctrl+arrow desktop cycle)

pretty much everything else you need to do can be done inside of emacs.

[paddy_m]

not if you run your shell under emacs. Running interactive processes in emacs is such a powerful model (python, bash, sql, slime, moz-repl). it makes using any of those processes signifcantly easier

[pyre]

Co-workers use term in Emacs to run sqlplus with libreadline-like functionality (as opposed to none). I'm sure it could add that functionality for other apps too. I just use rlwrap (a readline wrapper app) to add the functionality.