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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) W
by 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 agoEven 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 agoI 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 agoI 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.