I guess that using workspaces will work pretty well. You can move from workspaces to workspaces using either the overview or the Ctrl+Alt+up or down. Each workspace can then be used to group multiple sets of applications together for improved productivity ;)
-Cyril On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 12:38 -0700, Lewis Chung wrote: > 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 list > > [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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