Window List with App Grouping 2.7
UUID: WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com
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"I'M BACK" :)
A window list with live window previews and Window 7 like favorites.
The settings launcher is in the right click menu of the favorites if favorites are enabled if they're not it's in the normal right click list INSTALL Run configure.py or look in readme
God Bless
Changelog in download
Changes
2.7
Made middle click act like in windows 7
Made the favorite hide when when apps are not grouped and their is a window open
Localized the Gsetteings schema
Minor cinnamon 1.6 changes
Completly revamped the settings
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github: https://github.com/jake-phy/WindowIconList
Original gnome shell extension: "Window List" by siefkenj, so full credits to him.
Gsettings python controller from Dalcde
Great job, love this applet, only a little questio how can i move the iconized windows list to the place you have it in the sreenshot, to me it appears sticked to the right side, and can't move it a px. Could you help me plis
It is not working for me with any of my themes for some reason
Fixed :D just required a little change in the dconf-editor great applet congratulations :D
Got it working! Excellent!
MartinB, can you tell me how you changed that in dconf-editor? Thanks ;)
Sure z06gal,open the dconf-edito and go to org then cinnamon. You need to change the value of enabled-applets, there's a lot of text locate: WindowIconList@jake.phy@gmail.com and change the default value center:2 to: 'panel1:left:2:WindowIconList@jake.phy@gmail.com' Then deactivate the applet of the default window list. It works great :D
Martin, I see exactly what I need to do but when I click on the line to change it, the window maximizes and it goes over the right edge of the screen. I can't even scroll to it and have to close it out and reopen dconf-editor but the same thing keeps happening. The strange thing is the window is as far to the left screen as it can go. I have no idea why it is doing this. I keep messing with it. Thanks for your help ;)
Yeah that happened to me too. I copied all the line, you know double click then Ctrl + C, and pasted it in gedit. Edit the stuff there is quite simple and then you just need to copy again and replace the original content of enabled-applets.
Excellent.....I didn't think of doing that. Thanks!
Cinnamon 1.3.1 takes care of moving the applets so that you don't have to mess with dconf-editor ;)
Good job, thanks.
Great applet, thanks! It would be awesome if you could pin icons, similar to the Windows 7 taskbar.
Unfortunately this is not working for me in 1.3 I extract to /.local/share/cinnamon/applets but after when I go to the cinnamon settings > applets menu, the menu doesn't load at all even after an ALT + F2 - r Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong?
@RAWRferal https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/downloads Version 1.3.1 Works perfect.
It's decided to work now ha :) Great applet!
Does this work with 1.3.1? I get the iconized window AND the normal application window in the taskbar. If I can get it work, this is a great applet!!! Thanks for your work.
Hello there :) It sounds, that this applet will be a great deal, but i can't get it work with Cinnamon 1.3.1 What i have missed to do?
sorry but i'm away from home at the moment it will be a couple more days till i will be back
Hi Working nicely with Cinnamon 1.3.1. Thanks a lot, it was for me a much requested feature. Your photo above shows a plain black box. I have an outside light grey box around the black one. I would like to know how to get rid of the outside light grey box, because I do not need it. I use the applet "Spaces" to place it in center position, just to distinguish it from Launcher zone.
i could not figure out how to remove that box. when i get back i'll work on it again.
Almost there. The Close button needs to be at the bottom of the list and the icons need to be grouped the way Windows 7 / DocbarX does. It's really not practical to have multiple instances of the same icon. Good effort though.
You should make it so you can pin the icon there. So like, yle to work with cinnamon tIt works as an app launcher :p
Agreed with bownz -- I'm really looking for a dockbarx replacement akin to dockbarx on gnome2 panels. Also, I cannot get this to work with the most recent version of cinnamon..... I click the checkbox in cinnamon settings and nothing appears. Not sure about the gconf-editor fix...
The restart cinnamon trick (alt+f2 and then enter "r") made the applet work for me. Thanks for the suggestion in the description. Some requested upgrades that will make this much nicer: basically, just make it like Windows 7 taskbar or Dockbarx: -- Option to group common items (i.e., shouldn't be two different icons for the same program) -- Option to pin With those two additions, this will be perfect. Thanks for your work.
I'm running this with the menu bar on the top, and the window preview image of the program could be a lot bigger. Lots of empty space. Using default theme.
I love this applet <3 Could you please create a github repo for it so we can work it on? I think that if some aspects were improved, it'd be so good that it should be installed by default.
^^ ok will do
Please please please let us pick what programs we want on the main panel. I don't want all my favs there. I should be able to pin the programs I want there. Makes no sense to double up the favs list.
ok
Also, did you limit the favs on the pannel to 5?
added the option to turn the favorites off ^ not that I knew of
ok the favorites have some problems but i have to go for now :(
you can put more than five favorites in the favorites now
Turned off the fav. Thanks for that. Would like app pinning if possible instead of Favs. Also, there is a lot of gray space around the window previews. I know a minor complaint, but they look much better without so much wasted space. see: http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/18/get-windows-7-style-window-previews-on-your-mac-dock/ Thanks for the hardwork!
Also, unless I'm missing it can the version # be the first line in the applet file? Just to make lifes easier.
hi... kudos on the applet... only thing for me is the fact theres so many open icons.... if all the open windows grouped together under one icon it would be perfect
thats in the plan
The applet is one of my favorite so far. I have only one problem. When I leave skype chat windows minimized by default when someone sends you a message and the chat window is minimized an asterisk(*) shows in front of his name in the window title, but since here there isn't any text and only icon, how can you see if someone has send you a new message. I have to close the chat window so I can have a number in my notification area over the skype icon. Otherwise 5 stars for this applet.
Hey, I upgraded to Cinn 1.4 and now I can't get the icons to line up near the panel icons. They seem to be stuck on the right hand side of the screen.
Hmm,, why can't I move the applet to the left? It's stuck on the right, and It's upsetting me :p
should work now guys. sorry but cinnamon 1.4 caught me of guard
No worries. Caught me off guard as well.
make git package for ArchLinux - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57518
@physics: We'll automate gsettings schema compilation going forward (i.e. your applet will be able to define a gsettings schema in XML which the settings tool will compile for you when it's installed). Also, we introduced the ability for applets to detect the panel edit mode and you can use that in yours to make things reactive or non-reactive.. (to make it easier for people to drag/drop the applet in panel edit mode). You can see how this is done in the main window list applet. Don't hesitate to come and chat on IRC at #linuxmint-dev on irc.spotchat.org if you want more info on this. Congrats on a great applet ;)
Hello, i have some troubles starting applet. May you help me? https://twitpic.com/8xotby
Are you copying the unzip files to the right directory?
@clem great I was going to ask for something like that @neycho thats weird, did you check the permissions of metadata.json?
Hello, i have trouble with it. I copied applet to /usr/share/cinnamon/applets but when i open cinnamon settings and applets it is not there. I use Cinnamon 1.4 on Fedora 16 x86. Maybe someone knows what's going on?
there guys should work now
It's now works :) Thanks physics, this is really good applet.
Hello! I have copied the applet folder to /usr/share/cinnamon/applets. First, nothing was shown at the applet section. Then, after setting permission that my user can access that files, applet find it's way to applet section, but when i select it, nothing happens.
Great Applet Hopefully you can get the favorites working again that would be pretty sweet
@neycho try installing to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets. @infektedpc they are will upload tomorrow
@physics It didn't work neither...
I'm really liking this. Love the way it now seems to centre the open icons on the menu bar. One question, is there a way of turning the favourites section off?
@Sidhartha you have to change line in applet.js file: "SHOW_PINNED_APPS: true" to false.
Hey Paul, strangely all my 'open' icons just jumped from the middle of the menu bar (which I was loving) back to the left next to the favourites icons... any ideas why that might happen? Thanks
Paul, I've got them back in the middle now... I think there may be a little bug there, but of course it may well be a cinnamon bug.
I notice the loading spinning icon loads off centre to the right behind the icon. Is that on purpose?
It gets better and better everyday :)
For some reason It doesn't load for me. It just adds a blank spot on the taskbar.
when i hover icon,i can see window previews, but i couldnt't select windows or there isn't exit button. But sometime i can it. Cinnamon 1.4 , Iconized Window List [stable] 1.5
(+) when i hover windows in previews, preview box is closed.
@ bownz: what for error does "cinnamon --replace" output @ fmete: yeah i know i trying my best to track down the problem but so far have been unsucccessful.
When I have Pinned Applications or whatever, looking glass tells me "this._draggable is not defined"
Did some trouble shooting of my own. In order for the applet to work with pinned applications, you need to have "Panel Launchers draggable" checked in the menu section of cinnamon settings (: Might wanna put that in the dicription
It would be great if there was added functionality of Grouping Windows. Also sis there any method to increase panel size, by say 50%.
Update this to the one on your github. I LOVE IT!
I did glad you like! :)
I've been following this since day one. even if you werent updating it here ;p Love it so much. So far one glitch. I had Google Chrome Pinned to favorites. and it wouldn't maximize, or pull to front. happened multiple times. Unpinned it for now:P
Could you also make it possible to pin files/documents/etc to the icons please?
Oh by the way: the applet isn't differentiating between different Wine programs. When I launch Word and Excel it's all bundled under the same icon.
Woaaaaa!!! amazing applet, congratulations man
Wau, this applet is getting better and better :)
@physics bro i found some issues of how the applet behaves when you have more than 1 instance of any aplication open. So the issue is that if those instances are minimized when u want to restore them only one will be restored while the other instances can't be restored even using the thumbnails to pick them. Is this a lilttle bug? Hope the feedback will help to enhance your great applet. Congratulations for your job, this applet is my favorite, it just needs some tiny fixes.
There's something similar for KDE but more developed: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=144808 Maybe you can get ideas from there. :)
thanks for reporting MartinB
There seems to be an incompatibility with the gnome mousewheel zoom app by Tobias Quinn. If I add this applet to Cinnamon under Oneric, while the zoom is enabled, I lock up the GUI. The app is here: https://launchpad.net/~tobias-quinn/+archive/gsmz I queried the author and asked him to reproduce it and this is his reply: "As far as I can tell this is a problem with the applet and not the mousewheel extension - I've tried the applet zipfile version and the latest from git. There are no lines in ~/.xsession-errors from mousewheelzoom.py but there are some lines from the applet." The zoom applet is absolutely critical for me (and other visually impaired users) as Gnome3's "zoom" is most charitably described as an affront to visually impaired users. The mousewheel zoom adds Compiz-like mousewheel zooming capability to Cinnamon. Can you please help?
@rojthevlorlon I wasn't able to duplicate it. can you try the latest git
OK. I'll have to rebuild my test box first though. The last lockup left me without an interface when I log in to cinnamon. I'll report back when I do.
i have a problem with this applet: if you open 2 ore more windows ( from firefox or nautilus , or any application ) if you right click and choose close one of the windows and than right click and choose close again , cinnamon will freeze/crash .
THANKS:)
Great job, this is the one that missing in GS and Unity! Is it possible to make right click menu showing the list of grouped windows too?
^ maybe but it will have to wait till after cinnamon 1.5 is out
Getting a werid error where if I open a libre office file with the mouse, the libreoffice icon appears and disappears quickly. I can use alt-tab to get to the doc, spreadsheet, etc. But if I open libreoffice from the menu the icon shows up fine. The icon shows up fine in the standard cinnamon window list.
^ fixed in latest git
Thanks!
Ubuntu 12.04 + Cinnamon 1.4, problems only with this applet (version 2.1)...I Switched on the applet and logged out to gdm. When I log in with Cinnamon it freezes (i think cpu loop) and I must turn off my notebook holding the power button. I tried to switch off other applet because i thought about some applet's conflict... Someone? :(
is that with the git? i have a few changes in it. it might work
yes, latest git :(
Great app. My only problem is that I can not move from WindowIconList to WindowListGroup. When I try to add the latest 2.1 (had this problem with 2.0 too) my whole desktop freezes. I have to log out with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, log into Gnome Classic remove WindowListGroup from the panel and then restart computer (else my cpu is running on 100%) and log back into Cinnamon. Any ideas why is this? Any ideas for a solution?
i'm sorry i wont be able to help you for a little bit i upgraded to 12.04 and stupidly lost all my files. so i'll try to get them back before i start programing again. you could open a git issue though
Should no longer freeze cinnamon.
Awesome! Thanks :D
Fantastic applet! I am impressed by your JS code. Wild stuff. Best applet I have seen yet.
thanks but i don't deserve it. The origanal gnome shell extension devoloper siefkenj is the JS genius. most of my script in very messy :)
still have the issue, mainly with google chrome, that it randomly wont restore, or come to the front when pinned to favorites. the easy fix is I don't pin anything atm, but I want to.
Thank you vary much, now it works! :)
that's wierd google chrome works fine for me
The problem with it randomly not restoring, Is from restarting cinnamon i'll try to fix in next release . @AnDrummer good
Thanks Physics.
I'm not sure if this is a bug, but when I hover over the thumbnail preview of a minimized window but don't click it the window becomes unminimized. It's hard to explain. Other than that it works perfectly.
Awesome app, and very customizable. After a few changes to the xml-file (making it display window title and use smart numbering), I now use this as my standard window list (unchecking the default "Cinnamon Window List" ). One bug though: doesn't seem to work to well when moving windows between workspaces. If I e.g. have 3 terminals open on workspace 1 and move 1 of these to workspace 2, I correctly get terminal count 2 on workspace 1 on but count 3 on workspace 2, and I am not able to preview the window on workspace 2.
I would love to see drag and drop support so if you drag a file over a icon, that program gets the focus. As seen in original Cinnamon Window List. Besides that this is awesome!
Tis done :) thanks for pointing that out.
What did I do wrong? Installed 2.5 and now if I close a programme that is not pinned, its icon stays on the panel with an empty preview. If I open it again, it gets a new icon. And the numbers do not decrease. I tried to revert to 2.4, but this problem stayed. Another thing I found is with Open Office. If I have a Calc open and I open a document from Nautilus, then I have in the Calc icon 2, but I do not see the document in the preview and I have no icon for Write.
Can you confirm that all those bugs are fixe?
no. still the same. :(
This is how my app looks now (after opening and closing some progs) http://t.co/Gy7TpkcJ Is there anything else except the .local/share/cinnamon.applets/app dir, that i should try to clear? This is strange to me, because even reverting to 2.4 does not help.
you can try copying install.sh: rename it to uninstall.sh and run it. It would seem as if it's not detecting when a window is removed. Could you open a git issue?
This applet doesn't group apps, and won't save my settings if I change them using the Python menu. It also doesn't detect when windows have been closed and keeps the icons there. This has great potential though, keep up the good work.
Let me clarify. The windows are grouped in that when I hover over, say, a LibreOffice icon all LibreOffice windows are displayed. It's just that there are still all of the Icons present too. http://i.imgur.com/m9WpE.png
Weird i can't duplicate the problems. Anymore info would be appreciated.
What more information do you need? I'm on the latest Cinnamon, I believe Python is all up to date. If I click on "group apps" in the Python menu, it doesn't change anything, and when I open up the menu again it's not ticked.
Ok can you email me your .xsession-errors file after selecting pinned apps and closing a few windows. jake.phy@gmail.com thanks
Ok, I've sent it in a blank email with no subject. Attached is a file called Untitled File 1, I think.
Man, idk what happened but your applet was far less bugged two releases before. Hope you can fix it, your's is an awesome applet. Keep on the great job.
yeah well most were there before just weren't as annoying. :) i think I got them fixed will upload tomorrow.
i am total newbie in this linux stuff i have a same problem as botchy: when i opet window and clost it, it stays opened on app, and if i open again a same window, it doesnt stack, it add a new ikon. how can i fix it? i remaind u: i am total noob in this!
I think I fixed it can you verify
after installing the new version (2.5.2) and restarting cinnamon my desktop crashed. but after logging out and in again I have no problems at all. to me it seems that the thumbnail bug is fixed. at least on my mint it's working as it should. thanks physics :) the office bug I wrote about is still there, but for me that is a really minor problem.
It seems to work now that I ran install.sh in terminal instead of double-clicking and running it like that. I'll let you know if I run into any other problems, but looks good :)
Oh, there is one thing. I now can't open the settings window at all. This isn't really a problem at the moment because I don't mind the settings as they are, but it is quite important in general.
I'm sorry, I hadn't made it clear that it had to be run in the terminal. As far as the settings window, is there a file named (cinnamon-windowlist-settings.py) in .local/share/ cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com. if not make sure there's one in the downloaded folder and try running install.sh. if there's not one in the downloaded folder redownload and reinstall. Glad it's starting to work for you.
@ botchy glad it's working for you. I had tried to add a function that is a gnome 3.4 function but it's not in gnome 3.2.
it works great. thx
@physics There is such a file there, but when I actually try to use the settings from the applet it won't work. That being said, in looking for the file, I've realised I can simply execute the file from the terminal. I'll just leave my set-up now. Thanks for this applet.
Is a really great applet. But when I upgrade the OS, from Linux Mint 12 to Linux Mint 13, the applet don't work. When I activate it, Cinnamon crash and don't restart again. I've installed it from the file install.sh, but it didn't works. What's the problem there?
Whats the error in the terminal when you try to restart in?
JS ERROR: !!! Exception in callback for signal: open-state-changed JS ERROR: !!! message=' "this.metaWindow is undefined" ' JS ERROR: !!! LineNumber='138' JS ERROR: !!! filename=' "/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com/specialmenu.js" ' JS ERROR: !!! stack=' "([object object], true)@/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com/specialmenu.js:138 -emit("open-state-changed",true)@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js:124(true)@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/popupmenu.js:1224 ([object_private_st_bin],[object_private_clutter_event])@/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com/specialmenu.js:130" ' Is this what are you asking for?
Ok thanks. Redownload and run uninstall.sh. and then run install.sh restart cinnamon and it should work.
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed import gobject._gobject JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'anonymous function does not always return a value' JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/alejandro24/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com/applet.js' line 471 exception 0 number 157 JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'anonymous function does not always return a value' JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/alejandro24/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com/specialButtons.js' line 411 exception 0 number 157 JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'anonymous function does not always return a value' JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/alejandro24/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/WindowListGroup@jake.phy@gmail.com/specialButtons.js' line 424 exception 0 number 157 JS LOG: AppTrackerError: get_window_app returned null and there was no record of metaWindow in internal database JS LOG: AppTrackerError: get_window_app returned null and there was no record of metaWindow in internal database Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Log level 8: _cinnamon_embedded_window_unrealize: assertion `CINNAMON_IS_EMBEDDED_WINDOW (window)' failed Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Log level 8: _cinnamon_embedded_window_unrealize: assertion `CINNAMON_IS_EMBEDDED_WINDOW (window)' failed
It didn't work :( The comment above is what the terminal returned when I ativated the applet.
What was the last couple of lines when cinnamon crashed. the above shouldn't have crashed it.
Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Log level 8: _cinnamon_embedded_window_unrealize: assertion `CINNAMON_IS_EMBEDDED_WINDOW (window)' failed Advertencia del gestor de ventanas: Log level 8: _cinnamon_embedded_window_unrealize: assertion `CINNAMON_IS_EMBEDDED_WINDOW (window)' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 472, in celldatafunction_checkbox def celldatafunction_checkbox(self, column, cell, model, iter, data=None): KeyboardInterrupt
JS LOG: AppTrackerError: get_window_app returned null and there was no record of metaWindow in internal database JS LOG: AppTrackerError: get_window_app returned null and there was no record of metaWindow in internal database
I don't know for sure but it would look like there is a problem with cinnamon-settings. I don't see any errors from this applet that would cause cinnamon to crash. what happens when you type "cinnamon" in the terminal after cinnamon crashes.
"what happens when you type "cinnamon" in the terminal after cinnamon crashes." Nothing, the keyboard automatically is disabled, also the edge of the window too.
Ok I have finally duplicated it now so it will get fixed :) it was my applet after all
Ok, Finally it works! I've installed Gnome-Shell Tweak Tool, so I tested again the applet and It worked! Maybe you should add in the description that Gnome-Shell Tewak Tool is a dependency of this appled for users of Linux Mint 13. Thank's a lot :)
it does not work in mint 13 cinnamon edition 64bits please fix it I really need this menu :) thanks
Maybe it would be great to add support for multi-language? I can help with the translation into Russian (Ukrainian). I'm already have an experience (engaged in translation of cinnamon). Alternatively use the lang.mo (compiled) or lang.po (source) files?
Does it work for you now? Multi-language is a good idea but i have no experience with. if you want to add it go ahead.
Hi, thanks for a great applet! I've got one problem with it though. Icons on panel are ver narrow - here's a screenshot: http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5426/imghka.png ...how can I enlarge it? Seems like other things work fine. Thanks!
can you try a different cinnamon theme?
You're right, it works with other themes...is there a way how to fix this?
Has anyone else have a problem with this Applet and vlc? Ie freezing of the screen when you watch a movie and click on an icon?
This is really getting better. To be able to pin apps with out having them pinned in the main menu is awesome. Thank you so much for making this!
@ micer: it would be in the panel-launcher style. @ Sid32: does it happen every time? and @ razor: thanks :)
Might be tied to freeze/crash issue in 2.6.0. Trying 2.6.1.
That is, I just upgraded to 2.6.1
Is there a way to find out the version number of the installed applet?
Also, feature request: Highlighting for activity in windows, like a new Skype message and things like that.
sorry but i don't have a version number i'll add one next release. i'll work on the highlighting to.
Thanks for listening to my suggestions. Keep up the good work.
Great applet! Could you please make an option to show title only on focused window?
I'll try.
Greetings buddy, congratulations!! your applet is getting better an better. I have a small suggestion, is it possible to set a fixed distance between the launchers in your applet? I mean now i can see that it inherits the styles of the Panel Launchers Applet so most of the time the launchers icons are too near each other and then when you open one it changes the separation according to each theme, sadly in most themes it does not look so great. If you could set the distance between launchers to the same that the open applications uses it would be awesome.
I think so I'll add it in next release.
hi, just installed 2.6.9, but could not see anything. no pinned favourites, no open windows, nothing. had to roll back to 2.6.1. tried it with uninstalling nad installing again, but the same. is there anything I should check to figure out the problem?
There I think I fixed it.
nope. still nothing appears. :(
ok, try again
cool. :) this one works :) thanks!
Apparently you are not using the nightly builds of cinnamon. Correct?
correct :)
sorry, i was getting ahead of the stable release :)
Question: Does this auto-update?
Also, "stable" is pretty relative, given the frequency at which Cinnamon crashes.
Never mind, I only just realised there was a PPA. I was extracing previously.
First, I'd like to tell I like this applet, I use it as a dock. But, icons are troncated on top and bottom, and icons move, they are shifted 1 or 2 pixels left, when you activate an app. I use version 2.6.9, I was unable to install 2.6.9.3. I follow Mint installation procedure and it stay in 2.6.9. Thank's.
Hi, great app, so much functionality, really impressive. Only problem I have is that I can't get the keybindings to work. Do I have to set them somewhere?
I am completely new to the Linux and Cinnamon community, and I am having a lot of trouble trying to get this applet to work. I was able to get it to show up in my applet menu and activate it, but how do I actually use it?
Thank you for this great applet. It works fine. Is it possible to show every opened programm from all workspaces? For now it shows only the programms what are opened on the workspace which i currently use. Or is there an option which i have not seen?
Great app, loving the preview and the grouping. Only two small problems: 1) For some reason, Software Manager isn't grouping with the icon in the panel. It pops up a separate icon in the panel, and THAT one has the little number "1" on it. The other apps I have on there work the right way, just Software Manager. 2) When I hover over the Banshee icon in the panel, it truncates the name; I see "Bans..." instead of "Banshee". Again, only this icon gives me the issues, none of the other ones (including Synaptic Package Manager, which is super long) do this. I haven't messed with any of the settings on anything. Weird. Running on 32-bit Maya. Other than these two small issues, app works great!
suggestions for making it better : * if you can make the icons bigger or wider * include close button in the previewed windows other than that it'w awesome , thank you :D
@mIXpRo You can already do all of that. In a pinned app that isn't open you can right click for the settings. And the previewed windows already have an X on them when you hover over them to close
I can't get it to work. If I simply copy the folder to ~/.local/cinnamon/applets it adds its option in the applet list, but if I select it, it only adds a blank spot. If I give to the terminal the repository add commands, it gives me a bunch of 404 errors, resumed at the end of the process: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bimsebasse/cinnamonextras/ubuntu/dists/debian/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bimsebasse/cinnamonextras/ubuntu/dists/debian/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/jupiter/ubuntu/dists/debian/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/jupiter/ubuntu/dists/debian/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I'm using LMDE 201204...
Works perfect! Thanks, physics! One thing: when I open different documents in Okular, they do not collapse into one icon. Do you know how to change it? Thanks!
Oh, I'm an idiot. ppa are Ubuntu's things, so can't use them in LMDE, in fact I got some errors that depended on ppas of other software I tried to install (jupiter). Got it to work with classical schemas compiling, but had to get libcanberra-gtk3-module first. Best applet ever man, definitely five stars, as useful as it needs.
Anyway, some minor requests for the future versions, if any: can you add a right click option that allows us to close all instances of the same applications at a time instead of having them close one by one? Can you make it so that if we close a window by clicking the X on the upper right corner of the thumbnail we still get other thumbnails opened, instead of losing focus? Can you give us an option to get an overview of all instances of the process (so that we can choose one by clicking it) by clicking on it on the bar, like in *ugh* Unity? Could you make it so that we can close instances by midde-clicking on their thumbnails? Let me know if you intend to consider one or more of those requests. Thanks a lot in every case, the applet is just indispensable!
Thanks fo applet, its great. In addition the above you can make it so that if we click on the Thumbnails the window to be minimized and vice versa, it can be graet feature.
If I may make a wish for a feature, I would love there to be a padding option so that I can specify some padding between the icons and the panel borders. Great applet altogether though, congratulations.
Thanks, 2 Issues tho: Pin-Apps doesn't work, the app won't even be added to the list. Netbeans doesn't work correctly with favorites mode, It shows in the list, but once you start it, it will be shown in a new icon instead of the launch-icon.
Please make this compatible with Mint14. Updated and can't install it.
I'm so sorry but I can't update it until Christmas time because i'm at a bible school where internet is not allowed.
Tried installing this from terminal with apt-get, and manually by extracting the files and running the python file. none of them worked, tried restarting after each one and still got nothing (windows don't group and i cant find a settings button anywhere), would be really thankful for any help
This applet is a great idea but I can`t get it to work properly. I`ve installed following the instructions, restarted Cinnamon, the applet show in Settings so everything seems in order...but when I activate the windows do not group. And if I deactivate the Cinnamon Window List applet the windows list dissapears altogether (I don`t know if they`re supposed to be activated together for it to work but clearly something is wrong). I`m running Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest Cinnamon, any idea what I should do? Thanks!
Loving this applet, running on mint14 no problems. Just one thing to consider maybe, I like to use it without grouping apps into one icon, but with that option, if I open a window from a pinned (favourite) program, another icon for the same program pops up next to it, as an open window. So there's two icons for the same program even with only one window open, one with the border around to show that it's open, and another without. Only for favourited/pinned programs. Although this really isn't even an issue, it does seem a bit redundant and ugly atm. And it can take up way more space on the panel than necessary if a lot of favourited programs are open. I know I can just choose to group them in that case but this'll just be more efficient if I don't have to keep changing the option. I also realised the whole point of this applet is to make it grouped like win7, but I like having this dual sort of function in one, as both launchers and as a window lister with the ability to keep it ungrouped. Sorry for making this so long, but keep the good work! :)
Please I need help. I always use Linux Mint with Cinnamon, I love it! But I have an old computer and I have installed Linux Mint XFCE version. MY QUESTION is> There is some plugin (item) to add to xfce panel that be similar to this applet? App grouping, windows7-like, only icons... Thanks! :D
I love it, much more comapact
awesome to see you've resumed working on this applet - I believe it is a vital for cinnamon to have such an add-on :)
Thumbs up!! Best applet!!
Almost perfect -- a vast improvement to the normal, rather BUSY window list. However, one thing that is missing (mentioned in the Readme, but not functional) are Super+# style keybindings to a) launch an application if not launched, b) focus an application if it is launched, c) switch focus between windows of the application has more than one window opened. This is one of the only features of Windows 7 I *love* and is far more elegant (and faster) than alt tabbing or entering scale mode. This would make this probably the most useful 3rd party applet.
Thanks for the feedback those are some great ideas. I'll see if i can get those implemented.
I believe you have implemented my whims, amazing, thank you so much! This is definitely imo the best applet.
hope you don't mind, I made a couple of changes: fixed a few compiler warnings, added support for the windowlist role (available in next cinnamon version) and made the close button not close the list of windows, but update it instead: http://lusito.info/3IDA-0443-B57M.zip
Hi Jake Thank you for your app which I love! 1 small query. If I open an attached document in Thunderbird it briefly flashes up the LibreOffice icon but does not show a 1 on the LibreOffice Writer icon which I have as a favourite. If I open LibreOfffice Writer from favouries it then shows as 2 items and I can see the attachment on the previews and switch to it. Not completely annoying but would be nice if it could be fixed!! Best Spinnekop!
spinnekop I think you have the "smart" numbering enabled in the settings. change that to normal and you will see the 1 again.
@Lusito Nope - it is set to normal. Works whenever I open multiple docs any other way. Just not when I open attachments from Thunderbird.....
LibreOffice will pin to favouries, OpenOffice won't - any idea?
Awesome. I'd use it, but... if you're on classic mode, the size of the icons always revert to the size of the top panel. So if you use a smaller panel on top, but want the icons to stay on the bigger bar on the bottom, the icons will stay to whatever size the top panel is set to.
The functionality is great but how can I reverse the midde-click to close the window, as it was at first? I miss that feature.
I get an error that no js module "metadata" found in search path. I can see the applet in the settings menu but nothing happens when I enable it due to this error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Is anyone able to help me with this issue? I've been looking around for a fix, but so far, no one hass posted this issue for this applet.
Great Work! Can't imagine being with out this know.
I need to be able to edit the app launchers, eg add a path for the file manager to open. The app can’t do that as yet, can it?
Hi physics! Great job, I really like your applet. There is just one option, that is missing for me. I think a possibility to scale the size of the icons would be great. (For me, a smaller size would be better.) If I understand the code right, the scaling should be quite simple. In "specialButtons.js" Line 272 and 360 one could replace the line this.icon_size = Math.floor(Main.panel.actor.get_height() - 2); by this.icon_size = Math.floor(Main.panel.actor.get_height() - ICON_SHRINK); for example, where ICON-SHRINK is a parameter which is set to the value "2" by default, but adjustable in the applet's settings. Or what about a scaling-factor (this.icon_size = Math.floor(Main.panel.actor.get_height()*0.7);) ? Just an idea. What do you think? All the best, UncleS_A_M
Now THIS is what I was looking for! I was duped into trying DockbarX which sucks on Cinnamon. I installed this and removed the regular Cinnamon Window List - MUCH better,! Awsome app!
This applet is just great. congratulations!!! Look, if you could add keyboard shortcuts for the selection of windows I will put you on a pedestal. You'll be my hero!!!
Am I the only one that cannot run this applet? I get the error that there is no metadata in search path, I would greatly appreciate any help with this issue.
Better than dockbarX, good job! I used to use that together with window list applet, because dockbarX was able to list and show every open window, regardless its workspace. Would it be possible to do this with this applet, in order to reach any opened window in its workspace? Thanks
got it to work
Hi, great applet, what about translations? I would like to translate into Czech... Maybe can help with German... But great applet, localization is always welcomed :-)
I can do the german translation. ;-)