Post #207,596
5/16/05 10:26:51 AM
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No, I don't use multiple desktops - I don't think that way
I could never get into the habit - even when working on X11 platforms that had them. However, i did install it on Tiger, it does work, and I played with it for about 15 minutes to see if it addressed your complaints. It works properly with expose. It seems like a pretty slick little program.
Also, I wondered if you'd figured out that cmd-` flipped through windows in an app layer on a desktop, while expose can be keyboard driven by invoking it, then arrow keying to hilight the window you want, then hitting return to activate it. No mousing required.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #207,604
5/16/05 10:59:22 AM
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Thanks
Also, I wondered if you'd figured out that cmd-` flipped through windows in an app layer on a desktop,
No I hadn't.
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Post #207,605
5/16/05 11:10:32 AM
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Tried ctrl-F4 yet?
Supposedly that flips through open documents, regardless of application.
If that works like alt-tab, you can remap it.
I can't try it right now, because the Mini is at home.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #207,607
5/16/05 11:31:04 AM
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Re: Tried ctrl-F4 yet?
Changes speaker volume.
The Apple - Backtick works through open app windows for a particular app.
It bounces to different desktops, though, so I can't open a series of windows for a particular project on a particular desktop and have it respect that boundary (as Todd steams while I bitch like the ingrate I am).
But it is certainly closer than it was yesterday to being a usable environment.
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Post #207,612
5/16/05 11:46:48 AM
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ctrl-F4, or Apple-F4?
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #207,615
5/16/05 12:26:30 PM
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I didn't find it bouncing to different desktops
when using the commercial window manager to which I sent you the link. I had safari windows open on each of two desktops and it cmd-` didn't result in a switch.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #207,622
5/16/05 1:34:44 PM
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I was using the other desktop manager.
I'll try the commercial one next.
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Post #207,644
5/16/05 2:53:27 PM
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Happens on X terms but not browser windows
Arrgg!!!
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Post #207,667
5/16/05 3:29:26 PM
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So use regular terms
you've found that exporting DISPLAY in the environment lets you use other terminal programs.
This shows you how to set up globally available environment variables:
[link|http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/AquaEnvVar.html|http://www.astro.was...n/AquaEnvVar.html]
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #207,779
5/17/05 6:43:04 AM
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ctrl-F4 on mine cycles windows.
Stupidly, though. It's not most-recent-used, it's just "go through all of the windows, regardless of application". Bleah.
MRU is a good algorithm for this sort of thing. Not everyone stays in a single application all the time, which is what having two (three?!?) different keys to do the same thing assumes. I don't want to have to remember whether the MRU window is in another app or not in order to decide which key to use. That's asinine.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #207,606
5/16/05 11:21:11 AM
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Why do you call "Apple-Key" Control?
Or does control work on your machine the way Apple works on mine?
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