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From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio
Date: Thu,  7 Feb 2008 10:25:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ec7b180802070925k3e6554f4n1981c28fd1364856@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080207172246.GG4218@gluon>

a non-plan9 solution: run rio with -virtuals num and have a few
different desktops, switching between them with the middle button.

i typically run 'rio -virtuals 4'

andrey

On Feb 7, 2008 10:22 AM,  <lejatorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to cut it short: how do you guys do it?
>
> Since I am not to the point where I run almost everything in the same
> acme window, I need quite a few windows when I'm on p9 or in rio from
> p9p. And I am having trouble finding and raising to focus the one I need
> when there are more than, say, five of them on a res of 1280x800.
>
> Sqweek pointed me to winwatch which seems rather neat, but there is no
> such thing in p9p as far as I know, and no keyboard shortcut to cycle
> through the various windows (except in cinap's hacked rio ;) ).
> So I assume there must be a way to work efficiently through the
> windows and I'm curious to know what are everyone habits and tricks for
> that.
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 17:22 lejatorn
2008-02-07 17:25 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2008-02-07 17:44   ` lejatorn
2008-02-07 17:45   ` Lluís Batlle
2008-02-07 17:59     ` john
2008-02-07 19:11       ` Steve Simon
2008-02-07 19:17         ` john
2008-02-07 19:45         ` Axel Belinfante
2008-02-08  9:47 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-08 11:17   ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-08 11:28   ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-08 11:58   ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-02-08 12:58     ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-08 13:04     ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-08 13:22       ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-08 13:31         ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-08 13:34         ` roger peppe
2008-02-08 14:26           ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-08 14:36             ` roger peppe
2008-02-08 19:18             ` Russ Cox
2008-02-08 16:47     ` john
2008-02-08 17:08   ` Uriel
2008-02-08 19:21 ` Russ Cox
2008-02-21  9:28   ` Mathieu L.
2008-02-21 10:24     ` Christian Kellermann
2008-02-21 10:47       ` lejatorn
2008-02-21 16:12     ` ron minnich

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