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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/02/12 16:54, Jamu Kakar wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
>
> This sounds interesting, but I guess it's be a bit slow to use since
> you have to mouse to the launcher, right click, get to the window you
> want, and finally click on it.
yeah, not perfect, but a window list is kind of what I expect to see 
when right clicking on a launcher icon, it just feels like the right 
thing to be there. Not sure if I am alone in expecting this behavior.
>    I was just experimenting with Alt-Tab
> and Alt-` to try to solve the problem you describe and discovered that
> you can use them together to hone in on a particular window.  Maybe
> you already know about this behaviour, but if not it might help the
> situation you describe.
>
> Try this: hold Alt and press Tab until you get to the application you
> want.  Then, while continuing to hold Alt, press ` until you get to
> the particular window you want.
>
> Thanks,
> J.
that does actually work, I thought it didn't, but it is a really slow 
way of working. Lets say I have a browser and about 15 assorted terminal 
windows scattered about, one of which relates to stuff I am looking at 
in the browser, so I want to go to that particular terminal session and 
then switch repeatedly between that one terminal window and the browser. 
I can alt-tab to the terminal application, wait for the per-window 
switcher to start and alt-tab round to the window I want, I then make a 
change and alt-tab back to the browser which has a reasonable chance of 
just working, refresh there and alt-tab back again and it raises all 15 
terminal windows and I have lost my browser, so I alt-tab back to the 
browser and I then have to go find the terminal window again using the 
switcher, pause, switch method (alt+` does mean I don't have to wait for 
the pause which is good). With the quicklists I can right click the 
terminal icon and just choose the one I want much faster than using the 
switcher. I guess the real problem is that a quick alt-tab doesn't do 
the right thing which is bug 873082 but in the absence of a fix for that 
the quicklists work for me :)

Alan.

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