GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323682
Suggestion to add feedback in the window list when switching windows with Alt+Tab
Last modified: 2018-01-24 13:30:28 UTC
When switching windows using Alt+Tab, one sees a list of the current windows and can choose from them. As one searches for the right window, its border is shown in black. This helps to recognize the right window. To make recognizing the desired window easier, it would be nice if the entry in the wondow list of the window currently being the candidate for raising was highlighted. (Maybe in a similar way as with the 'urgent' hint.) Other information:
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Created attachment 140164 [details] Blueish taskbar when selecting windows I've been doing some hacking to get this working and I now have that's kinda working, mostly for POC. See screenshot. This is how I've solved it; - When Alt-tabbing in metacity send a XPropertyChange which says a window is in switching mode (and removes the property when not selected) - Listen to this change in libwnck and use the window state infrastructure A few problem with this; - It's not part of the wm-spec - It's got an ugly blue color in the taskbar - It crashes sometimes :-) Is this something we want? If so - is my idea of solving it in the right path?
Created attachment 140165 [details] [review] Prof of concept patch against libwnck
Created attachment 140166 [details] [review] Prof of concept patch against metacity
It's interesting. I like the idea, but it really needs to be discussed on wm-spec-list. Marcus, is this something you'd be willing to push, and see if there's interest from other people working on the EWMH?
@Vincent, at the moment I don't have the time so you're more than welcome to do the talking ;)
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