On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:06:58AM +0100, David Tweed wrote: > Hi, > > just a general query in case anyone has thought more > about this than me and has come up with any better > answers: are there any good strategies for keeping > track of which window is where when you've got lots of > windows, say 50 windows spread over 4 frames in a > workspace. (The window contents are such that at any > given time I want to look at a given combination at > once, so I don't want to split them down to a smaller > number per workspace; equally "well, if it's a problem > don't create that many windows" isn't really what I'm > looking for :-) ). > > Obviously with an average of 12 clients per frame it's > often impossible to read anything distinctive in the > tabs due to the small space. I've played around with > pull-down menus listing all available windows but > never really got anything that didn't give a huge long > list of windows to read.
I use a 2-level hierarchy (nested WIonWSs) in my most popular frames. Works pretty well provided you can come up with a reasonably balanced set of categories. You lose a few pixels for the extra title row in each frame of course. I mitigate that using WPaneWS. -- Jamie Webb
