GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 651771
Window switching enhancement: Tell me the position of a window
Last modified: 2013-05-24 15:27:55 UTC
Created attachment 189148 [details] Four terminals (xterm) in the same workspace. Hello, It would be nice if during window switching the Gnome shell adds a visual indication of the position of the window that is currently switched. This is very useful in situations where you have many window belonging to the same application inside the same workspace. A typical situation is when you have many terminal windows (see attachment). If you press Alt+[Key above Tab] you are able to switch between these windows but if you want to select a specific window what you have to do is to try to infer it from its thumbnail. Traditional WMs usually help you by showing a transparent (or a framed and without content) window in the position of the window currently focused by the window switching. Is it possible to save a similar (or other) visual help for Gnome-shell? Thanks, -- Marco
The "extensions" component was originally used to mark feature requests that we didn't want in the core, but could be implemented as extensions. However over time, the component's usage has shifted to report bugs against extensions in gnome-shell-extensions - I doubt many extension authors will browse through bugzilla for inspiration though, so there's little value in keeping the report around.