Comment 67 for bug 607796
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| Martin Wildam (mwildam) wrote Re: [Bug 607796] Re: Dragging and holding a selection over an entry in the Launcher should spread out windows belonging to that application | #67 |
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:36 PM, TheGhost <email address hidden> wrote:
> @johnlea "The main issue we have is with application support, but this
> is something app authors need to fix on a per app basis, not something
> we can fix in the shell."
>
> I really doubt this too. So why is it working on KDE, Gnome Shell or
> XFCE ? I don't believe it is working there because it's fixed on per app
> basis...
I also really think of a unity problem here. Dropping onto the window
itself (if visible) works in most cases so the problem is just the
spreading-out of the windows when hidden behind and you want to reach
it using unity.
Try the following:
Run ccsm, go to Windows Management -> Scale -> Bindings tab; set the
first screen shortcut ("Initiate Window picker") to bottom right.
Next open a text editor for example and a nautilus window. Go to a
folder that contains a text file and drag it to the bottom right. What
happens is that the open windows are spread as thumbnails over the
screen. Keep the mouse button pressed and hover over the text editor
window. After a few seconds waiting it comes to the foreground. Then
let loose the mouse button and the file is opened in the editor.
The same should happen, when hovering on the left side over the unity
launcher - the windows of that application should be displayed
thumbnailed and then hovering over one of the windows should bring it
to the front and activate it. That it should be technically possible
shows the experiment explained above. Actually this is my workaround
for the problem now.