From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45219fb00802070945r5140a1efpeb77eb616af680ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:45:13 +0100 From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs_Batlle?=" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180802070925k3e6554f4n1981c28fd1364856@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080207172246.GG4218@gluon> <14ec7b180802070925k3e6554f4n1981c28fd1364856@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4b6e2158-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I use exactly the same virtuals. I really like the scrollwheel virtual switching. I also still use '-term xterm'. But I wish I had a riofs, in order to write some scripts playing with the windows, or using 'xbindkeys' for doing some wm tasks. 2008/2/7, andrey mirtchovski : > 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, 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. > > > > -- > > GPG key on subkeys.pgp.net: > > > > KeyID: | Fingerprint: > > 683DE5F3 | 4324 5818 39AA 9545 95C6 09AF B0A4 DFEA 683D E5F3 > > -- > > >