On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:00:33AM +1300, jerrold poh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:33:44AM +0100, Mark Weinem wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002, David U. Haltinner wrote:
> > 
> > > To make everyone happy with the 'icon' war (how BB should use them),
> > > why dont you just use the last (unused) mouse button to display a list
> > > of currentlly open and iconified programs running in that workspace?
> > > it will create a nice and easy way to switch between windows and to
> > > reopen them. i would suggest not having submenus in it for easier use.
> > 
> > Only a menu listing *all* windows and icons (workspace independent!!)
> > would be useful.
> 
> Sounds good, but why not add something for a key / mouse binder for
> blackbox?  Ie, you'll have an event called "show all windows" or
> something, which you could bind to a mouse button, or keyboard shortcut?
> 
> Ie, just push the middle mouse button and get a list of all windows
> opened, or, if you're feeling lazy, just type ctrl-esc, (or whatever
> your shortcut key to bring up the window list is), and use then use the
> arrow keys (or a quicksearch with the keyboard - hint hint), to move to
> the window you want.  

You can set up bbkeys to show the windows on all workspaces in its list.
So then when you hit alt-tab (or whatever you want) and get a list of
all windows and just release th emodifier key (alt in this case) to
switch to the window of your choice.

xOr
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I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.

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