window management

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Fixing the IndustrialTango theme

I’ve been using IndustrialTango for years now and am stuck in my ways. Now that I’ve switched from Metacity to Compiz an ugly issue with Industrial Tango’s window border theme reared its head, for every window the window icon on the top left would not display. Instead of switching to a different window border theme [...]

Improving GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin

Improving GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin

Something related to the previous post and something that I think would be quite useful is if GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin by Jason Smith supported textually searching through the window titles and then focusing the application it found. It currently only supports searching for application names. Using libwnck this is actually quite easy. Focus [...]

Useful window management functionality

Useful window management functionality

Ater some experimenting I’ve switched from Metacity to Compiz, even though it’s a little bit slower on my system. I’ve disabled all animations and whatnot as I don’t care for that, but what drew me was the potential usefulness of certain plugins for window management. I’m currently trying to get used to a particular combination [...]