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[SOLVED]Windows overview in XFCE

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yzT
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[SOLVED]Windows overview in XFCE

#1 Post by yzT »

Moving to a hot corner or using a shortcut, is it possible to have a preview of all opened windows in XFCE? Something like the top left corner in Gnome, KDE or Cinnamon.
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Re: Windows overview in XFCE

#2 Post by thanatos_incarnate »

Not in Xfce proper, but you can use Skippy XD, it's a tool that mimics Mac OS's Exposé feature.
The .deb fine provided on the website is for Ubuntu, but installs perfectly fine on Debian Stable.

https://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/

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Re: Windows overview in XFCE

#3 Post by keithpeter »

Probably not what you want, but I

1) set a 3px 'margin' on the right in the Settings | Workspaces command, so that even maximised windows don't cover that margin and some of the desktop can be seen

2) then I use middle click anywhere over the desktop to get a list of all the windows in all the workspaces. If I have a window maximised, I can move pointer to the right edge where my margin is

3) have just made a custom short-cut using Settings | Keyboard Shortcuts for the command xfdesktop --windowlist as in

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5969

which I just Googled! quite nice.

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Re: Windows overview in XFCE

#4 Post by yzT »

that skippy-xd works flawlessly

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows overview in XFCE

#5 Post by ruffwoof »

If you just want to run Openbox without Tint2, lxpanel .... whatever, then brightside (in the Debian repositories) enables hot corners to be set up ... that can call skippy-xd. I have mine set to the bottom left corner. If you right click a window whilst in skippy the window will minimise, middle-click and it will be closed.

Add stalonetray (also in the repositories) and set that to be docked perhaps in the top left corner as I have it, and auto hide ... and the likes of orage, wicd, skype ... etc tray icons are easily accessible.

Setting a margin of a few pixels on the left hand screen edge is my preferred setup (rather than the right as mentioned earlier), so when a window is full screened you can still access the menu (mouse to left hand screen edge and right-click) or use the middle button to switch to a desktop, or mouse scroll to flip through the desktops ...etc. And/or set up a hot key (I have mine set to the Menu key i.e. similar to a Windows/Special key, but on the other side of the spacebar).

Complete that with Conky so you have a desktop date/time and system overview (or whatever (weather etc.)).

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Animated gif that steps through a handful of screenshots.

Once you get used to things that way its good IMO. And fast also as you're just using Debian standard (command line) with xorg and openbox.

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