Comments on: Squib of the day: a removal van http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/24/squib-of-the-day-a-removal-van/ "Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios." Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:22:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marius Gedminas http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/24/squib-of-the-day-a-removal-van/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Marius Gedminas Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:40:24 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=537#comment-940 If you ever held down Alt+SysRq and got 27 print screen dialogs as a result, you'd miss the ability of selecting a bunch of windows and closing them all at once. IceWM had a window list dialog (bound to Super+Esc) that let you select multiple windows and perform an operation on them (close, minimize, move to workspace N). Here's a screenshot: http://gedmin.as/icewm/winlist.png . It's a typical multi-selection box with a context menu with window operations, and some keyboard shortcuts (IIRC pressing Del would close the selected windows). Sometimes I think Metacity could use something like that. If you ever held down Alt+SysRq and got 27 print screen dialogs as a result, you’d miss the ability of selecting a bunch of windows and closing them all at once.

IceWM had a window list dialog (bound to Super+Esc) that let you select multiple windows and perform an operation on them (close, minimize, move to workspace N). Here’s a screenshot: http://gedmin.as/icewm/winlist.png . It’s a typical multi-selection box with a context menu with window operations, and some keyboard shortcuts (IIRC pressing Del would close the selected windows).

Sometimes I think Metacity could use something like that.

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