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Just a quick tip on that note: In win7+, Win+N opens the Nth application you have pinned to the taskbar, counting from the left.

by gnud 12y ago

marvy 12y ago
Thank you for reminding me. It's actually even better than that. Let's say your taskbar looks like this: (1) Browser: pinned and now open (1 tab only). (2) Windows Explorer: pinned, open, several windows. (3) Windows media player, pinned, closed. (4) Notepad: not pinned, but open. Win+1 will bring the browser to the front, unless it's already there, in which case it will minimize it. Win+2 will bring a Windows Explorer window to the front, and if you keep pressing it will cycle between them. Win+3 will obviously open Windows Media Player, Win+4 will bring Notepad to the front.
- dormento 12y ago
  Even better: Win + shift + number will start a new instance of the application in that taskbar position (multiple explorer windows, for example). Win + shift + left/right will move the current focused window between monitors.
  - mkesper 12y ago
    I find Win + Left/Right (makes the program use left or right half of screen, Win+Up for fullscreen) the best news in Win7+. This saves so much time and makes me hate all programs that do not support it fully.
- dbpatterson 12y ago
  I actually find that _worse_ than what the parent described. If I hit Win+1, I want to see the browser provided that it's open. I don't want the state of the system prior to hitting that to have any effect on it. If I accidentally hit Win+1 twice, it seems that I would end up minimizing the browser. At least for me, the primary value that tiling window managers provide (even though it has little to do with tiling!) is idempotency.
dbpatterson 12y ago
This is also true in Ubuntu's Unity, but after trying to use it, a minor issue drove my crazy: if you switch to one that isn't open it will open the application. So if I accidentally Super-4'd (which I didn't think I did, but after trying to use Unity for a while, I'd do it at least several times a day), it would start whatever the 4th application was. And then you have to deal with it showing up a fraction of a second later. I don't want switching and starting applications to be the same action, because switching should _always_ be extremely fast. If there was a way to make it only switch if it was open, then this would be a viable option for at least my workflow.
Already__Taken 12y ago
They need numbers that appear there on the win key press, after icon number 4 I can't just look and get the app right.

Just a quick tip on that note: In win7+, Win+N opens the Nth application you have pinned to the taskbar, counting from the left.

by gnud 12y ago

Just a quick tip on that note: In win7+, Win+N opens the Nth application you have pinned to the taskbar, counting from the left.

marvy 12y ago

Thank you for reminding me. It's actually even better than that. Let's say your taskbar looks like this: (1) Browser: pinned and now open (1 tab only). (2) Windows Explorer: pinned, open, several windows. (3) Windows media player, pinned, closed. (4) Notepad: not pinned, but open. Win+1 will bring the browser to the front, unless it's already there, in which case it will minimize it. Win+2 will bring a Windows Explorer window to the front, and if you keep pressing it will cycle between them. Win+3 will obviously open Windows Media Player, Win+4 will bring Notepad to the front.

dormento 12y ago
Even better: Win + shift + number will start a new instance of the application in that taskbar position (multiple explorer windows, for example). Win + shift + left/right will move the current focused window between monitors.
- mkesper 12y ago
  I find Win + Left/Right (makes the program use left or right half of screen, Win+Up for fullscreen) the best news in Win7+. This saves so much time and makes me hate all programs that do not support it fully.
dbpatterson 12y ago
I actually find that _worse_ than what the parent described. If I hit Win+1, I want to see the browser provided that it's open. I don't want the state of the system prior to hitting that to have any effect on it. If I accidentally hit Win+1 twice, it seems that I would end up minimizing the browser. At least for me, the primary value that tiling window managers provide (even though it has little to do with tiling!) is idempotency.

dbpatterson 12y ago

This is also true in Ubuntu's Unity, but after trying to use it, a minor issue drove my crazy: if you switch to one that isn't open it will open the application. So if I accidentally Super-4'd (which I didn't think I did, but after trying to use Unity for a while, I'd do it at least several times a day), it would start whatever the 4th application was. And then you have to deal with it showing up a fraction of a second later. I don't want switching and starting applications to be the same action, because switching should _always_ be extremely fast. If there was a way to make it only switch if it was open, then this would be a viable option for at least my workflow.

Already__Taken 12y ago

They need numbers that appear there on the win key press, after icon number 4 I can't just look and get the app right.