You know, there's something comforting about the classic "MS Windows" style window management scheme. I'm not sure what it is, because most of the time I have my windows maximized, and I rarely (if ever) access a window which is in the background by clicking on it.
I do occasionally find myself arranging two windows in an overlapped manner so that I can reference material between the two windows, even though one is partially obscured by the other. I guess that is one nice thing about non-tiling managers. I'd be interested to see what HCI people have to say about the usefulness of different window managers, and what usage styles tend to work well with different managers. Anyways, for the time being I've solved the problem by setting a key binding in gnome keyboard shortcuts to fullscreen the current window =). On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nikolas Coukouma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ed Kohlwey <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> It seems like an obvious enough idea for those of us who are >> constantly seeking to make maximal use of our vertical screen real >> estate, but maybe thats just me =). > > My first thought was "why aren't you using a tiling window manager?" > They tend to have no window decorations at all ;) > > Cheers, > -Nikolas >
