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Expocity - efficient application switching

Submitted by pycage on Mon, 2003-11-24 15:41. Metacity Window Manager

expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between applications into the window manager metacity. After pressing a keystroke, your window manager will present you a complete overview of all open windows and you can select the window, you want to switch to, visually.
You no longer have to search a too full taskbar or the tablist for the right window. Just point at it.

Everybody is talking about such a feature and that it would require the new freedesktop.org X-Server... well, expocity is an extension for metacity enabling this on a standard X-Server!

More info and a screenshot can be found
here.

If you want to try it out yourself, get the patch from
here and apply it to the current CVS version of metacity.

Have fun! .... Martin Grimme

Re: Expocity - efficient application switching

Submitted by Javier on Thu, 2003-11-27 02:46.

Nice, realy nice vanity hack.

you rule :)

ok, here is another screenshot:

http://isotopo.homeip.net/Expocity/Expocity.png

Yes, there are some mini bugs, and it is not optimized at all, but it definitley can be useful in some cases, i.e. I wish I could activate it explicitly in stead of it to work when switching windows, that's more or less the way it works on Panther, they are able to: switch windows of the same program, switch programs, hide all the windows in order to see the desktop, group and see thumnail windows that belong to a particular program (i.e. only photoshop related windows), see all windows and programs.

Since we also have multimple workspaces on linux it could be more powerfull than that, i.e. I whish I could see all windows of all programs on all workspaces, and that's because I sometimes forget where is a particular window,

It could be behind another window on a workspace I almost never visit, or perhaps I just wanna know what is still open on the gnome-session before I lock the pc and go, etc......

I don't know if it is doable, I don't know much about metacity, let me know if there is somethng I can do in order to inprove it, I like it

Regards

Javier Diaz

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