Vertical, title-based window switcher
Grant Heaslip
me at grantheaslip.com
Sun Aug 22 05:48:10 UTC 2010
I'm a recent transplant from OS X to Ubuntu, and while I've found the move
much easier than expected (Ubuntu has matured a *lot* since the last time
I gave it a go, which was maybe mid-2007), there's one thing that's been
bugging me:
On OS X I relied pretty heavily on a window switcher called Witch
(http://manytricks.com/witch/). Basically, it behaves similarly to Alt-Tab
in Ubuntu and Windows, but gives a vertical list of window titles (the
screen-shot shows windows organised by application, but I have it set to
organise them by last used exclusively). The Compiz application switcher
only shows the title of the currently-selected window, and is based on
thumbnails of the windows, which I find mostly useless since I'm often
working with text-only content that isn't particularly identifiable. A
list of titles would be much better.
Anyone know of something similar to Witch that will play nicely with
GNOME, Metacity, and Compiz? Thanks!
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