That does work, unfortunately only for the single use case that I only have one 'grouping' of tiled windows. With how applications are laid out now and my laptops 16:9 screen, it makes sense to tile/'group' a multiple sets of applications together for improved productivity. In the case that I have multiple 'groups', is there any other known way to switch easily between them?
-Lewis On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Cyril Arnaud <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried a middle clic on the window top bar ? > It will bring this window below the others, and you'll see your tile > windows. > > -Cyril > > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:05 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > Le mardi 07 juin 2011 à 17:33 -0700, Lewis Chung a écrit : > > Using alt+tab and the activities overview makes sense to me. However, > > when I tile two windows next to each other, for example, evince and > > libreoffice writer, and I switch to firefox, I expect to be able to > > switch back to evince and libreoffice with a single activities toggle > > (used to be able to do this by minimizing firefox, but cannot anymore > > based on gnome-shell's defaults) > > > > Right now I have to alt+tab to focus both of the windows to bring them > > to the front. > That indeed makes much sense to me, I've already be bitten by this. > > > I was wondering if an extension some additional functionality could be > > developed to allow me to open the activities overview and drag a > > window on-top of another (grouping them), so that when I use overview, > > I can click on the group to bring both to the front. Other methods of > > grouping the windows together could work too, I just want to be able > > to group two windows together so they can both be brought into focus > > at the same time. > I think this feature might even go into the core design instead of into > an extension: that's the optimal behavior for all users. I'd suggest you > ping the designers on #gnome-shell list (ask for mccann, aday or jimmac) > to see what they think, and file a bug if they are OK. (I'll try to ask > them too if I'm around at the right hours.) > > > Regards > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing > [email protected]http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > -- Lewis Chung University of California, San Diego B.S Computer Science *expected* 2013
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