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[opensuse-kde] Re: Alt-Tab annoyance
- From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 18:28:32 -0400
- Message-id: <f1j0eh$jm9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Pascal Bleser wrote:
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> Lubos Lunak wrote:
>> On pá 4. května 2007, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>>> I still have a major annoyance with the Alt-Tab feature. I have a dual
>>> monitor setup with two desktops. I have the Alt-Tab option to include
>>> all desktops, but oddly enough, it only includes windows on the *monitor*
>>> I'm on. It does show all windows on both desktops, but only the ones on
>>> the current monitor. Which is very weird, if you ask me. I've fiddled
>>> with a lot of the options, to no avail. Any idea what is wrong? I have
>>> the Xinerama ("one big display") option set in SaX, and it works
>>> perfectly, except for the Alt-Tab.
>> See http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/xinerama/ , the first item, set to false.
>
> Or like this:
> - ---8<------------------------------------------
> kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows \
> --key SeparateScreenFocus --type bool true
> dcop kwin default reconfigure
> - ---8<------------------------------------------
>
> ;)
>
> BTW, what you actually want is setting that item to "true" instead of
> "false":
> - - true: show windows on *all screens* in alt+tab
> - - false: only show windows on *current screen* in alt+tab
>
> At least that's the behaviour here on my box, KDE 3.5.6
> (kdelibs3-3.5.6-41.4)
Spectacular Spectacular! Finally, it works like it is supposed to. Sorry,
but I can't imagine a scenario where Alt-Tab should only show windows from the
current screen. I can't believe that is the default now.
Anyway, much better, thanks. One small annoyance down!
--
Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog:
http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.
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> Lubos Lunak wrote:
>> On pá 4. května 2007, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>>> I still have a major annoyance with the Alt-Tab feature. I have a dual
>>> monitor setup with two desktops. I have the Alt-Tab option to include
>>> all desktops, but oddly enough, it only includes windows on the *monitor*
>>> I'm on. It does show all windows on both desktops, but only the ones on
>>> the current monitor. Which is very weird, if you ask me. I've fiddled
>>> with a lot of the options, to no avail. Any idea what is wrong? I have
>>> the Xinerama ("one big display") option set in SaX, and it works
>>> perfectly, except for the Alt-Tab.
>> See http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/xinerama/ , the first item, set to false.
>
> Or like this:
> - ---8<------------------------------------------
> kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows \
> --key SeparateScreenFocus --type bool true
> dcop kwin default reconfigure
> - ---8<------------------------------------------
>
> ;)
>
> BTW, what you actually want is setting that item to "true" instead of
> "false":
> - - true: show windows on *all screens* in alt+tab
> - - false: only show windows on *current screen* in alt+tab
>
> At least that's the behaviour here on my box, KDE 3.5.6
> (kdelibs3-3.5.6-41.4)
Spectacular Spectacular! Finally, it works like it is supposed to. Sorry,
but I can't imagine a scenario where Alt-Tab should only show windows from the
current screen. I can't believe that is the default now.
Anyway, much better, thanks. One small annoyance down!
--
Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog:
http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.
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