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Expocity - efficient application switching

Metacity Window Manager
Metacity Window Manager

expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between applications into the window manager metacity. After pressing a keystroke, your window manager will present you a complete overview of all open windows and you can select the window, you want to switch to, visually.
You no longer have to search a too full taskbar or the tablist for the right window. Just point at it.

Everybody is talking about such a feature and that it would require the new freedesktop.org X-Server... well, expocity is an extension for metacity enabling this on a standard X-Server!

More info and a screenshot can be found
here.

If you want to try it out yourself, get the patch from
here and apply it to the current CVS version of metacity.

Have fun! .... Martin Grimme

kudos--but is it really a good idea?

Nice job on doing this and showing that it can be done easily with the existing X11 server.

However, while it has a lot of "wow", is this really a good way of managing many windows? I use a Mac pretty regularly, and after giving the feature a try, I have to say, I prefer multiple desktops.

Apple has made a number of stupid UI decisions, foremost the one-button mouse and the global menu bar. This, I think, falls into the same category.