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The sticking point for me with Unity was switching between multiple open windows. I typically have a dozen or so terminals and gedit and Chrome windows open acr
by chanks 15y ago
The sticking point for me with Unity was switching between multiple open windows. I typically have a dozen or so terminals and gedit and Chrome windows open across a half-dozen workspaces, but if I want to bring (let's say) a specific terminal on my current workspace to the foreground, I couldn't figure out a better way to do it than to open up Unity's display of all the many terminals I have running and try to pick out which one I mean.
I'm open to trying it again once it's had a bit more polish, but I'm sticking with Gnome classic for now.
- hasenj 15y agoAll my terminals are tabbed in one window. But I hear yea; switching between several windows for the same application is not very keyboard-friendly.
- spenrose 15y agoI map Ctrl-Fx for F1 to F8 to each of my 8 virtual desktops, and have specific tasks (and window sets) open on each of them -- mostly xterms and emacs buffers. A couple of keystrokes always finds what I need. The key is establishing a task-to-desktop mapping, such as: current big programming effort on 1, email and issue tracker on 2, source code main trunk on 3, smaller jobs on 4 and 5, release terminals on 6, web browser on 7, SQL terminal on 8.
- justincormack 15y agoYeah I find that too. Problem is I cant identify the Chrome windows very accurately, and they keep reordering themselves by last used. I remembered the tabs by position, and reordered them, but the screen views are less useful, especially if lots of them have say wikipedia as the top site.