Other ideas: - Why not put other apps you use regularly in a dock? If docks could take the keyboard focus then you could have your instant messenger client available in a kpress, or an xterm giving you an always-on command line...
The "scratchpad" mod in ion3 is good for this. It is a resizable "popup" frame that you can move any window to, just like any other frame, (alt-a, tag-drop tagged, drag). I have it binded to alt-windowskey.
when it pops up it takes keyboard focus.
- Put the control window for your movie playing software in a dock so when you're watching a movie full screen you can access the controls without having to quit full screen mode. Sadly gmplayer has the same class/instance for the movie window as the controls :-(
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