Win7 Alt-Tab 2.1
UUID: Win7AltTab@entelechy
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Win7 Alt-Tab
Provides an Alt-Tab like that in Win7: Thumbnails in the switcher, plus window previews. The window title is displayed at the top of the switcher, for the highlighted window. Thumbnails are arranged in a grid. In this switcher, the traditional manners of tabbing are possible: active workspace, active app, and all workspaces. One may also switch workspaces while tabbing, or switch from tabbing all windows to the windows of a single app, like in Metacity. Press the "Home" or "End" key to go to the beginning or end of the window list, respectively.
To install, unzip the archive in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/, and restart Cinnamon (Alt-F2, "r", Enter).
Based on the default Cinnamon Alt-Tab, with code from SavageTiger's Gnome2AltTab extension.
Changelog
Version 2.1: update keybindings to work with either Gnome 3.6 or 3.8 base libraries
Version 2.0: rewrite to make it work with Cinnamon 1.8
Version 1.8: more intelligent ordering of windows in the tab list
Version 1.7.2: fix several regressions, including the disappearance of thumbnails
Version 1.7: add use of "Home"/"End" keystrokes; fade icons of minimized windows; various bugfixes
Version 1.6: code cleanup/refactoring; prevent half-pixel blurring of thumbnails
Version 1.5.2: restore some Metacity tabbing logic; thumbnails show dialogs; bugfixes
Version 1.4: more robust logic for workspace switching while tabbing;
show OSD when activating a window on another workspace
Version 1.0: initial release
cool :)
hi, I only get small program icons, not thumbnails, and a bit overlapping. could you check it. I'm running Mint 14.
I'm running Mint 14. Display is great on a dual-monitor setup, only showing the windows on the primary monitor. Shift+Alt+Tab and mouse scroll wheel work. There's a problem though, regular Alt+Tab-ing takes 1.5 seconds to switch between the two most recently opened windows. That is, if you press Alt, then press Tab while holding Alt, in about two seconds the window list will appear. This delay is presumably to avoid computing the thumbnails if the user wants to quickly Alt+Tab between two applications. The problem is that the quick Alt+Tab takes uncomfortably long (vs. instant) if you do it more than once in a row.
using archlinux x86_64, extension no longer woks with muffin from git (1.7.1+)