On 05/26/2011 06:25 AM, GonzO wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Dylan McCall<[email protected]> wrote:
Mutter, if I recall correctly, continues with Metacity's convention of
storing a window thumbnail before it is minimized. Meanwhile, Gnome
Shell's alt tab dialog doesn't show window icons. It shows application
icons and window thumbnails.
My Unity's default alt+tab behavior shows app icons as emblems over
window thumbnails... and I'm sure I did nothing to set that up on my
own.
Does yours not do this?
Please be aware that metacity has actualy two modes of operation: one is
the regular mode and the other is the compositor mode. You can control
what mode it using by looking with gconf-editor at the key
/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager
In the regular mode it just works as a regular plain old WM and the
alt-tab shows only icons.
In the compositor mode it uses the X11 Composite extension to do some
fancy effects with windows, most prominently a drop shadow below windows
and semi-transparent windows for those that require it (i don't know of
any application that does require that thought).
One other important effect of the compositor mode is that the alt-tab
dialog will display screenshots of the windows instead of just icons.
This works also for windows that are minimized because in compositor
mode metacity saves the pixmap for a window before it's minimized (it
does not normally do that in regular mode, unless patched with a patch
like the one we used to have for the unity-2d session).
Hope this helps,
--
Ugo
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