Better window management strategies?

[Shams]

hi

Have you tried Beryl
http://www.beryl-project.org/
http://www.beryl-project.org/features.php

I tried it Fedora and like some of its features especially Alt+Tab and the 
Scale Effect

Thanks
Shams

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"Joe Smith" <jes at martnet.com> wrote in message 
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> How do you folks manage your working windows? I find that working on a 
> standard WIMP desktop is a distracting battle of locating and arranging in 
> the needed windows. The current tools, specifically in the default Fedora 
> Gnome desktop are not working well for me, but maybe I've missed 
> something.
>
> Here's what I've tried:
>
> * Focus follows mouse
>
> I can't stand "click to focus", primarily because it's disruptive to move 
> a window to the top for something simple and then to restore the z-order I 
> had before.
>
> Using "focus follows mouse" solves that problem, but I'm left with the 
> converse problem: I often have problems finding the window I need and 
> bringing it to the top when necessary.
>
> Here's what I've tried for that:
>
> 1. Alt-tab to cyle through windows. This is the exact functionality I 
> need, but having to access it through the keyboard, with a rather awkward 
> key chord is not convenient enough. I want something that will work with 
> the mouse.
>
> 2. The window-selector panel menu. Better, but it's distracting to use the 
> panel here: it's too far from my working windows and it's complicated to 
> locate the correct button on the panel and select the right window given 
> only their titles.
>
> 3. Application window menus: these would be ok, except they don't work 
> with Nautilus under "focus follows mouse" (Mozilla Seamonkey and 
> OpenOffice are the two big ones I use, that don't work).
>
> What might help:
>   * a window menu built-in to the title bar
>   * a method to "restore the previous order", or at least to send the top 
> window down.
>
> Other suggestions? What obvious solution have I missed?
>
> <Joe
>
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