On Fre, 2010-04-23 at 11:22 +0200, Florian Martys wrote: > > Why I am here: > I'm new to the mailing list, so please excuse potential naivety. I > filed a bugreport against xorg package in Ubuntu on Launchpad* and > have been told that the problem is upstream and I have to ask the xorg > team in their mailing list, here I am. > > What I am here for: > I am using standard Ubuntu desktop (10.04) with Desktop effects > (Compiz Fusion). First, when using ALT-TAB to switch between windows I > can only see an icons instead of window previews when toggling over > minimized windows (bugreport**). Second, when using the Scale > plugin*** (WIN-key aka SUPER+A or W; extra desktop effects have to be > enabled), which is similar to the Exposé effect on Mac OS X, I can > only see windows that are avitve (i.e. not minimized), there is not > even an icon replacing the missing running application that are > minimized, minimized applications/windows don't even show up. > > As I understand this is not a bug, but more or less by design, because > minimized windows are not mapped anymore. However it is a usability > bug when using ALT-TAB or the Scale Plugin with the Desktop Effects.
It's up to compiz. It could (optionally) either not unmap minimized windows or just keep the last pixmap for them. I think it would have to be optional because in both cases minimized windows would use up more resources than before. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg