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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio
Date: Fri,  8 Feb 2008 14:21:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080208192058.9935B1E8C5B@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080207172246.GG4218@gluon>

> 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.

i tend to keep everything in acme, with other windows
peeking out from behind.  i can usually arrange that
the windows i care about don't fully cover each other.

what i'd really like is some kind of expose thing.
i have also tried, at times, grabbing a control key
(like control-tab) to cycle the windows, but i've never
gotten it working satisfactorily (x causes all sorts of headache).
F11 has been working well for me.

in short i don't think there is a good solution yet.

russ


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 19:21 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
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 [this message]
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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