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[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:21 PM, nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm finding it incredibly frustrating to use "Unity" because of the
> inability to close windows without first having to open them first. With
> previous gnome 2x I could right-click the window button in the taskbar
> (gnome panel) and select "close." With Windows 7 I can close a window via
> the popup preview that win7 generates when i place the cursor over the
> taskbar icon (regardless of what window is actually opened and focused)..
>
> In Unity, it would sure be nice to be able to close a window from within
> Spread Mode via middle-click. Similar to how I can close a tab from within a
> web browser.

This is possible, but for some reason not enabled by default. Enable
the "Scale Addons" plugin in the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

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