Re: cygwin alt-tab

[Danilo Turina <danilo dot turina at alcatel dot it>]

Laura McWilliams wrote:

> thanx for your reply.
>
> actually, it was kind of my whole point to be able to use the window
> manager. or at least SOME window manager, since i'm rather fond of having
> multiple workspaces (a feature which apparently may be showing up in the
> next version of Windows).

I use VirtuaWin (http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net):

	1) it's free
	2) it configurable
	3) there are a number of plugins for it

With up to 9 workspaces I'm able to work very well with it.


> anyways, i did figure out how to simply reassign the shortcut keys that
> cycle through the windows through Window Maker's configuration tool. I
> really do'nt know how i missed figuring that out sooner.
>
> cheers,
>
> ~L
>
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> "there are 10 kinds of people in the world...
>
> 	those who understand binary, and those who don't"
>
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
>
>
> > Have you tried XWin with the -multiwindow flag (and no Window Manager)?  In
> > multiwindow mode each Xclient gets its own Windows Window, and hence will be
> > included in the Alt-Tab cycle.
> >
> >
> > > From: Laura McWilliams <lmcwil@austin.ibm.com>
> > > Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: cygwin alt-tab
> > > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:32:18 -0500 (CDT)
> > >
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > i'm a new cygwin user and i'm wondering if there's any way to cycle
> > > through windows, like using alt-tab, because alt-tab is captured by the
> > > OS.
> > >
> > > i realize this issue has been touched on before
> > > (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-07/msg00044.html)
> > > but i'm throwing it out there because i couldn't find any descriptions of
> > > a good solution.
> > >
> > > i'm using WindowMaker, and i can't find any other key sequence that cycles
> > > through the windows (although i think it would be a great solution if i
> > > could use something like cntl-alt-tab to cycle through the windows in
> > > the x window, and still allow alt-tab to cycle through Windows
> > > applications)
> > >
> > > so if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. thankx
> > >
> > > ~L
> >
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