On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 23:03 -0500, Frank Pineau wrote: > > Kind of, at least in GNOME. It's called "Window Selector" and you can > > add it to your panel in the usual way (right-click on the panel and > > select "Add to Panel...". It displays a little icon of the currently > > focused application and when you click on it it displays the title and > > icon of all open windows. You can use it in place of the taskbar. > > > > Yeah, close, but not quite as useful. :) How does everyone else deal > with having many apps always open? Maybe I'm missing something good > that works just as well, but differently. I use the "Window Selector" that Ben mentioned, and don't use the "Window List" at all, since that one becomes useless with more than a handful of open apps. The "Window Selector" does exactly what I need and is small and unobtrusive. I also use 9 workspaces and have developed a convention for organising my apps (e.g. mail is always on workspace 7, web browser stuff always on workspace 5 , etc). I have the numeric keypad remapped to navigate between workspaces and to move windows to different workspaces. I never got used to the numeric keypad for number entry anyway, I guess because it is upside down compared to telephone keypads. Workspaces and "Window Selector" make handling 20+ application windows a piece of cake. Now, if only metacity could set different backgrounds for workspaces (like other wm's can)... Cheers Steffen.
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