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[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-11-28 09:35:15 skrev Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com>:

> I hear that the Mac has a function whereby you can hover the mouse
> over a minimized window icon and see a preview of what's in that
> window (similar to hovering the mouse over a tab in Seamonkey - you
> get a small preview of what's in that tab).

Well, since you have several desktop areas in Ubuntu (I have 16 of them –  
4×4, but that's up to the user), you never need to minimize anything in  
the first place, so I guess that feature is kind of unnecessary for most  
people, but maybe it exists anyway somewhere. Have you checked your Compiz  
settings? If you didn't already, you should install  
compiz-config-settings-manager:

sudo apt-get install compiz-config-settings-manager

Then you'll find it in System → Preferences. It lets you manipulate your  
Compiz settings, and there's a whole lot to set there.

So never minimize a window, just select another desktop when you need more  
space and you can then see all your windows by rotating the cube,  
especially if you use some 3D features that let you see the different  
windows in different heights from the cube surface. Sorry for bad English,  
by the way.

> I've also somehow (accidentally) run into a feature whereby I get a
> preview of every window in a workspace.  The only trouble I have with
> this is that I've never done it on purpose, only when I trip some
> combination of mouse and/or keystrokes that just makes it come up.
>
> What and where are these commands and how can I invoke them on purpose?
>
> Thanks.
>

I wold guess that this is a Compiz thing too. Open the Compiz settings  
manager that you installed above and take a look at the section ”Window  
management” or something like that (I run Ubuntu in Swedish so I'm just  
translating from Swedish here…). There are a few ways to switch between  
applications and stuff, maybe you invoked one of them. By clicking one of  
them you can set and view things like keyboard and mouse shortcuts and  
more.

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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg