On Saturday 26 May 2007 11:54:21 Joe Smith wrote: > How do you folks manage your working windows? I find that working on a > standard WIMP desktop is a distracting battle of locating and arranging > in the needed windows. The current tools, specifically in the default > Fedora Gnome desktop are not working well for me, but maybe I've missed > something. > > Here's what I've tried: > > * Focus follows mouse > > I can't stand "click to focus", primarily because it's disruptive to > move a window to the top for something simple and then to restore the > z-order I had before. > > Using "focus follows mouse" solves that problem, but I'm left with the > converse problem: I often have problems finding the window I need and > bringing it to the top when necessary. > > Here's what I've tried for that: > > 1. Alt-tab to cyle through windows. This is the exact functionality I > need, but having to access it through the keyboard, with a rather > awkward key chord is not convenient enough. I want something that will > work with the mouse. > > 2. The window-selector panel menu. Better, but it's distracting to use > the panel here: it's too far from my working windows and it's > complicated to locate the correct button on the panel and select the > right window given only their titles. > > 3. Application window menus: these would be ok, except they don't work > with Nautilus under "focus follows mouse" (Mozilla Seamonkey and > OpenOffice are the two big ones I use, that don't work). > > What might help: > * a window menu built-in to the title bar > * a method to "restore the previous order", or at least to send the > top window down. > > Other suggestions? What obvious solution have I missed? > > <Joe Hello Joe, If you have the needed hardware ( nvidia/ati video cards ) then is worthy to give a shoot to Beryl, this enhances the current window manager and you can reconfigure all the keyboard/mouse shorcuts, including of course the Alt-Tab to cycle windows. best regards Teo Fonrouge
