First of all, thank you very much for your participation at this great distro.
I finally switched from Windows 7 several month ago after I used it for years and became a true keyboard ninja in Windows
Now, I am missing to open the minimized windows in the launcher (the bar at the bottom, is the name correct?) by using super+1 for the leftmost window, super+2 for the one right to it and so on. I couldnāt find the settings for that in the at Preferences --> Hardware --> Keyboard Shortcut in the menu.
Is there any way to configure these shortcuts, preferable without using an additional tool?
Hi Jonas, Iām a big keyboard shortcut user and wasnāt aware of Super+1,2,etc in Windows. Iāll have to explore that tomorrow at work.
You should be able to Alt+Tab to select minimized windows but the particular compiz switcher Iām using needs Ctrl+Alt+Tab to include minimized and Iām not sure when that may be the case for your setup. Thereās a lot of switching variations but not in my normal usage.
Does this help? I donāt think thereās a function to bring them up in order as you describe.
Ubuntu Mate, and Linux in general, is a different operating system than anything made by Microsoft. Workflow is different as well. But if you stick with it, I think you will find Linux to be superior to Windows.
Since I use Compiz as my window manager, I also use the scale plugin as my window picker. After setting a hot corner in the scale plugin Bindings tab, all I have to do is move the cursor to the hot corner and select the window I wish to switch to. Very smooth, very quick, very efficient.
@Bill_MI
Alt+Tab is quite good, but not good enough. In Windows it is possible to pin application on the task bar so that they can ALWAYS started or opened by super+x. I had ~5 pin applications which I could open with super+x, using alt-tab takes too long and it brings me out of my thoughts while programming etc. Sadly that is no solution.
It is possible to emulate this sort of behaviour with a sript.
I found a bash sript on the xfce forums made by a very cool forum adninistrator ToZ. With a small change (I already made in the script posted here) it will run on ubuntu mate too.
The script requires:
there has to be at least one parameter, the name of the file to execute
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
echo āUsage: basename $0 {executable_name parameters}ā
exit 1
fi
BNAME=basename $1
test to see if program is already running
if [ āwmctrl -lx | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1-3 | grep -i $BNAMEā ]; then
# means it must already be running
ACTIV_WIN=$(xdotool getactivewindow getwindowpid)
LAUNCH_WIN=$(ps -ef | grep ā$BNAMEā | grep -v grep | tr -s ā ā | cut -dā ā -f2)
for WIN in $LAUNCH_WIN; do
if [ ā$ACTIV_WINā == ā$WINā ]; then
# launched app is currently in focus, so minimize
xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize
exit
else
# launched app is not in focus, so raise and bring to focus
for win in wmctrl -lx | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1-3 | grep -i $BNAME | cut -d' ' -f1
do
wmctrl -i -a $win
done
fi
done
exit
else
# start it up
$*&
fi
exit 0[/code]
Now set the panel launcher. For example I will use firefox.
Set up the panel launcher with firefox icon with next command:
launcher firefox %u
You can launch firefox from the panel launcher. If you click the panel laiuncher firefox is already running and is not in the focus it will focus i. If itās in the focus firefox will minimize.
Now add the keyboard shortcut.
From the mate main menu select System > Preferences > Hardware > Keyboard Shorcuts
Type anything you like for the name, for command use: launcher firefox %u
Now set the keyboard combo super+1. It should say āmod4+1ā next to to the custom shortcut you created.
Thatās it.
thank you for your great answer. That is nearly exactly that what I used and it works great. In Windows, the behaviour is a little bit different, especially the binding to a shortcut is not static - it depends on which apps you already openend.
I will upload a video soon if I have a little bit of time.
Btw, it just works for me if I omit ā%uā in ālauncher firefox %uā in the keyboard shortcuts settings. Maybe a typo?
I used an external tool for numbering the taskbar.
First, I pressed super+1 and super+11 to open the firefox windows (then again super+11 by mistake) and after that super+3 for opening the libraries. Afterwards I opended the calculator. As you can see, number 6 is assigned to it. When I moved it (and that is the point) the number is changing.
