Comments on: Squib of the day: keys for windows http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/08/squib-of-the-day-keys-for-windows/ "Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios." Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:08:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: user http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/08/squib-of-the-day-keys-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-877 user Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:14:58 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=458#comment-877 Not too interesting IMHO. I also wonder what it'd do if I assigned a key to xterm and opened 5 xterms... perhaps cycle? It would be interesting to have a method to more efficiently access running programs. I for one usually have a lot of programs to switch between, but often I find that there are several of the same type, which leads me to think that this is best solved on an application level (ie, Nautilus' recent tab support... if they'd only add ctrl+tab support)... /me goes off to find new terminal emulator. There was that thing that was in Fluxbox where windows of the same type where grouped into tabs, and that was cool... but it seemed to fail or even cause problems more then it succeeded and helped. Not too interesting IMHO. I also wonder what it’d do if I assigned a key to xterm and opened 5 xterms… perhaps cycle?

It would be interesting to have a method to more efficiently access running programs. I for one usually have a lot of programs to switch between, but often I find that there are several of the same type, which leads me to think that this is best solved on an application level (ie, Nautilus’ recent tab support… if they’d only add ctrl+tab support)… /me goes off to find new terminal emulator.
There was that thing that was in Fluxbox where windows of the same type where grouped into tabs, and that was cool… but it seemed to fail or even cause problems more then it succeeded and helped.

]]> By: Screwtape http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/08/squib-of-the-day-keys-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-875 Screwtape Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:14:08 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=458#comment-875 To be honest, I already have a system for dynamically associating keyboard shortcuts to windows, or even groups of windows; it's called switch_to_workspace_<em>n</em>. To be honest, I already have a system for dynamically associating keyboard shortcuts to windows, or even groups of windows; it’s called switch_to_workspace_n.

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