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Date: Thu,  7 Feb 2008 10:25:57 -0700
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
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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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