Cassia Window List

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A window list/panel launchers based on CobiWindowList with some additional features

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This is a Cinnamon window list and panel launcher applet based on CobiWindowList with a number of additional features designed to give you more control over how your window-list operates.

Recent new features (Aug 2023 - Dec 2024):

Focus a buttons window when dragging an object to the window-list so the user can drop on the window
Added scroll-wheel options, cycle all window-list windows and cycle group/pool windows
Added context menu options to close all/other windows for the buttons application
Saves new default thumbnail window sizes (adjusted using the mouse scroll-wheel) across cinnamon restarts
Now uses application specific thumbnail windows sizes across all workspaces
Changing the "Default thumbnail window size" setting will now reset all scroll-wheel set thumbnail sizes
Add "Always on top" item to the button context menu as well as "Always on top" mouse actions (Cinnamon 5.4+)
Allow rearranging Thumbnail menu items using drag-and-drop, also allow dropping on the desktop
Add options for hiding button labels when the windows workspace/monitor is not the current workspace/monitor
Added an option to sort the Thumbnail menu for grouped buttons based on the Workspace & Monitor index
Added 4 scroll-wheel actions options which applies when the scroll-wheel is used on a window-list button
Added "Restore/Minimize 1st window in group" option to the "Left button action for grouped buttons" option list
Support "drag-&-drop to desktop" which will move a window to the workspace & monitor it's dropped on
"Move window here" context menu/mouse action options to move a window to the current monitor/workspace
Thumbnail menu items will now show the windows workspace/monitor number(s) when appropriate
Added an option to configure the "number label" contents (added workspace and monitor number options)
Added an optional vertical ellipsis character to indicate a window-list button is grouped
Added 4 new mouse action options that will activate windows 1-4 of a grouped button
Added a configuration option to set the delay length before showing full size preview windows
Mouse action options for window tiling, untiling and moving window to current workspace
Hover peek: Option to show a full size preview when hovering buttons/thumbnails
No Click activate: Option to automatically switch focus to the button/Thumbnail last hovered
Adjustable spacing between window-list buttons
Ability to disable the new window animation
Ability to change the icon saturation from grayscale (0%) to vivid (200%)
Ability to show windows from other workspaces
Restores custom group/ungroup application setting after reboot/cinnamon-restart
Hotkey option to assign a set of 1-9 hotkeys to all window-list buttons
Hotkey hints using the (`) grave key with any registered hotkey modifiers
Added a Left-Click option to start new application windows in Launcher mode
Ability to show a common set of pinned buttons on all workspaces
Smart numeric hotkeys to assign a set of 1-9 hotkeys to a specific application
A bunch of fixes

The design goals are to:

Allow you to declutter your window list when running many windows without having to do without button labels
Keyboard hot-keys to switch to specific windows so you don't have to reach for the mouse so often
Allow you to make full use of your mouse buttons to interact with the window list
A panel launcher that can activate existing windows rather then unconditionally launching new ones

Requirements

This applet requires at least Cinnamon 4.0 but Cinnamon 6.0 is recommended

Before upgrading to Cinnamon 6.4 make sure you are running version 2.4.0 or better of this applet

Installation

Right click on the cinnamon panel that you wish to add the CassiaWindowList to and click "Applets"
Click on the "Download" tab and select "Cassia Window List" and then click the install button on the right
Click on the "Manage Tab"
You most likely will want to disable the existing window-list applet you are using
Select the "Cassia Window List" entry and then click the "+" button at the bottom of the Applet window
The CassiaWindowList Basic Setup Wizard window will appear, follow the instructions to configure to your liking
Right click on the cinnamon panel and use "Panel edit mode" to enable moving the window-list within the panel
More configuration options: Right-click on any window-list button, "Applet Preferences" -> "Configure..."

Features

In addition to the features of the CobiWindowList...

Hotkeys: Assign hotkeys to windows and applications so you can switch-to/minimize/start application windows using the keyboard
Application pooling: Keeps all window list buttons from the same application together side by side
On demand application grouping: Allows for Group/Ungroup application windows on the fly
Label pooling: Show only one label when adjacent windows are for the same application
Automatic grouping/ungrouping: Group/ungroup windows for an application based on available space in the window list
Zoomable thumbnail windows: Thumbnail windows can be zoomed in or out using the mouse scroll wheel
Configurable mouse button actions for the middle, forward and back mouse buttons
Configurable Ctrl/Shift + mouse button actions for all 5 mouse buttons
One character unicode indicators characters to indicate group window count, minimized status and pinned status
Total control over which window-list buttons have labels, and what the label contents are
Automatic configuration backup so you can restore your configuration after adding the applet to a panel again

Feedback

You can leave a comment here on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com or you can create an issue on my CassiaWindowList development GitHub repository:

https://github.com/klangman/CassiaWindowList

This is where I develop new features and test out any new ideas I have before pushing to cinnamon-spices.

If you use this applet please let me know by liking it here and on my Github repository, that way I will be encouraged to continue working on the project.

CHANGELOG

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Changelog

2.4.1

Use the DesaturateEffect class rather than the saturate_and_pixelate() API to adjust the icon color saturation. This has as advantage in that it is able to desaturate the color for all icons where before it was limited in what type of icons it would work on. On the other hand, it has a disadvantage in that it can't oversaturate the icons. Hopefully no one was using the >100% saturation feature because it's not gone now.
Fixed the option to hide windows for pinned buttons on other CassiaWindowList instances. Previously this option would only take into account pinned buttons on one other window list instance. Now it creates a super set of application that are present on all other CassiaWindowList instances that are setup to be in "Launcher" mode. Also changed the option name to make it more clear what the option does.
Fixed the label width to take into account the user interface scaling factor so that the label width will accommodate the same number of characters even after changing the displays "User interface scale" percentage. This might mean you will have to reduce the label width setting if you had adjusted it be your desired size based on a >100% scaling factor for your display, but now the label width will adapt correctly when changing the scaling factor

2.4.0

Fix issues when running under Cinnamon 6.4 (port of cobinja's fix for CobiWindowList). Make sure you have this fix BEFORE upgrading to Cinnamon 6.4

2.3.9

Fix the Thumbnail menu item remove animation that is used when the window-list is on a vertical panel
Use an "up arrow" unicode character as the minimized window status indicator when the window-list is on the top panel
Focus a buttons window when the user drags an object onto a window-list button so that the window is made visible enabling the user to drop the dragged object on to the window

2.3.8

Remove the focus highlighting when no window has the focus (i.e. after you click on the desktop)

2.3.7

Added scroll-wheel options, cycle all window-list windows and cycle group/pool windows
The "active" class (window-list button underline in MintY theme) is now used as an active window highlight when pinning is disabled
Fixed bug preventing pinned buttons from being removed after disabling the pinned buttons support ("Pinning of window list buttons" -> "Disabled")
The window-list mouse scroll-wheel action will apply when the Thumbnail menu is open and the Thumbnail menu scroll-wheel setting is "Disabled"
If the active window changes when the Thumbnail menu is open, the outlined Thumbnail menu item will change if the new active window is one of the menu items

2.3.6

Added context menu options to close all/other windows for the buttons application (when button is not grouped)

2.3.5

Fix for the "number bubble" showing up incorrectly after changing the UI scale settings in display setting application.
Add a 2nd layer of code to try and ensure that the "Welcome Wizard" dialog does not reappear after a restart

2.3.4

Saves new default thumbnail window sizes (adjusted using the mouse scroll-wheel) across cinnamon restarts
Now uses application specific thumbnail windows sizes across all workspaces
Changing the "Default thumbnail window size" setting will now reset all scroll-wheel set thumbnail sizes
Fix the icon geometry so that it is set correctly in more (all?) cases

2.3.3

Improve the window icon geometry update logic for more accurate minimize/unminimize animations. It's still not perfect, but this fixes most of the issues.

2.3.2

Enable Cinnamon restore/minimize animation by setting window icon geometry
Fix (hopefully) an exception seen opening a context menu under Mint 22
Fix blurry icons caused by not respecting the panel setting colored icon size

2.3.1

Added a window-list button context menu item to toggle the "Always on top" window state
Added a "Always on top" mouse action option so you can configure a mouse button to toggle the window state

2.3.0

Allow rearranging Thumbnail menu items using drag-and-drop
Allow drag-and-drop of Thumbnail menu items to the desktop, matching the behaviour of window-list button drag-and-drop
Add options for hiding button labels when the windows workspace/monitor is not the current workspace/monitor
Fixed how labels are hidden for grouped buttons so that it's solely based on the current windows state
Added an option to sort the Thumbnail menu for grouped buttons based on the Workspace & Monitor index (pools will not be sorted!)
Fix a cases where Thumbnail menus can contain stale window titles or even contain windows that have been closed
Fix to show labels for application pools where some, but not all, windows in the pool don't qualify to have a label
Added 4 scroll-wheel actions options which applies when the scroll-wheel is used on a window-list button
Renamed "Activate # window in grouped button" mouse actions to "Restore/minimize # window in group"
Changed "Restore/minimize # window in group" so it will minimize the window if the window already has the focus
Added a "Restore/Minimize 1st window in group" option to the "Left button action for grouped buttons" list of options

2.2.0

Added support for drag-and-drop of window-list buttons to the desktop. This will move the window to the desktop that the drop occurred on. If you drop on a monitor where the window does not current reside, it will be moved to that monitor. If the window exists on a different workspace, it will be moved to the current workspace. If the window does not have the focus it will be activated and given the focus. Requires Cinnamon 5.4 (Mint 21.x)
Added a "Move window here" context menu item and mouse action options. Using this feature will move the window to the current monitor (the monitor of the window-list) and to the current workspace, then the window will be given the focus.
When appropriate, the Thumbnail menu items will now show the windows workspace and monitor number to the right of the window title. This will only appear when one of the window-list options are enabled that shows windows from other monitors/workspaces and only when there are more then one monitor/workspace available. The number(s) will appear in the order "(workspace#/Monitor#)" when both numbers are needed.
When the "number label" is set to show workspace numbers and button is grouped, I fixed the "number label" so that it is updated when the focus changes causing the current window for the grouped button to change. This is needed in case the workspace for the newly focused window is on a different workspace than the previous most recently focused window of the group.
Fixed the number of arguments passed to the API call for moving windows to other workspaces on older OS's (pre Cinnamon 5.4).

2.1.0

Added an option to configure what the "number label" content represents (Window count, Workspace index or Monitor number).
Added an option to show a vertical ellipsis character on grouped buttons to indicate a button represents a group of windows. Useful for users that decide to use the number label for Workspace/Monitor number and needs a new way to mark grouped buttons.
Added 4 new mouse action options that will activate windows 1-4 of a grouped button
Change the "2 or more window" option in the "Display number" drop-down to "Smart" so that it can apply to other number label options.
Removed the "Display number" "Never" option as now the "Number Style" option can disable the number label
In Launcher mode the "Number Style" option now appears but it's effects do not apply. This is because the dependency setting in the json only allows a single variable dependency and it is now dependant on the "Number Style" option. You can't use "and/or" logical operators to have better control when the option appears.
Clarified the tooltip text for the "Hover time before showing a full size window preview" option.

2.0.4

When in button pooling mode with a thumbnail menu open showing more then one window, highlight the thumbnail menu item matching the window of the windlow-list button that is currently being hovered by the mouse pointer.

2.0.3

Don't close then reopen an existing thumbnail menu when the mouse hover moves between different buttons in the same application pool (as long as the menu does have an item for the currently hovered button's window). This removes the useless thumbnail menu close then open sequence when using the application pooling behaviour.
Print hotkeys in a pretty way for the button context menus "Assign window to a kotkey" submenu list.
Minor fixes and optimizations

2.0.2

Prevent the Thumbnail menu from grabbing the focus. This prevents odd cursor key behaviour and it allow the workspace hotkeys to work when the Thumbnail menu is open.

2.0.1

Added a configuration option that controls the delay before the full size preview window appears
For Cinnamon 6+, I removed the text on the Advanced tab describing a bug that effects the list widget on that tab. I fixed this Cinnamon bug in version 6.0 so there is no need for the message, (and this gives more GUI space for new options).
Prevent the full size preview window from appearing when the context or thumbnail menu is open

2.0.0

Added 9 mouse button actions for window tiling
Added mouse button action to move a window to the current workspace
Fixed several cases where the icon saturation effect was not changing to reflect a change in a window state
Changed icon saturation effect for grouped window list buttons to only consider the last-focused window rather then requiring all window to have the same qualifying state before using the effect
Changed how the applet was deciding on code paths for features that are only possible in newer releases. This fixes some issues when running on Cinnamon 5.x releases prior to 5.4.
Added version numbering, started with version 2.0 based on the fact that I have already far exceeded the feature set that I originally set out to implement.
Added a CHANGELOG.md file (you're looking at it now)

1.0.0+

There was no version tracking prior to version 2.0.0

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82 Comments

Nate-4 days ago

When you set the scroll wheel action feature to "Change Window Workspace", it does what I call "flicking" the window to the next/previous workspace. I use it all the time.

Filipe-1 month ago

Wow, that's a really good applet. A way better than its "cousin" CobiWindowList. I really loved the way you put so many features to modify, configure, and make beautiful. Thanks for your applet. It's my default window manager for now.

Kevin Langman-1 month ago

Thanks Filipe. Glad you like the applet. CobiWindowList is indeed a large part of what makes CassiaWindowList possible. Because I started from a good base I was able to spend my time implementing all the new features rather than implementing all the elements of a window list.

GreggRen-1 month ago

Works great! thank you for your work.

Kevin Langman-1 month ago

Thanks!

Tyler-3 months ago

Love it! One thing I'm having a problem with is the grouping. I have the "window list behavior style" set to Grouped. For most things, this works great. But I have a few items installed that don't group properly. Ex: I have IntelliJ installed. I had to create a launcher to be able to launch it without directly going to the bin directory and launching from there. I had to drag/drop this launcher onto the Cassia bar to get it to pin. If I launched IntelliJ from the launcher I created, it shows up on the Cassia bar, but the "pin to panel/launcher" was not available. Once I drag/dropped to the bar, it shows up, but now when I launch it, a new instance pops up next to the pinned launcher. Any thoughts on that? I'm a little newer to linux, so if I'm missing something simple, I apologize.

Kevin Langman-3 months ago

Glad you like that applet. A window group is defined by it's Application (Shell.App class). The App class is based on ".desktop" files that are generally found in the /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications directories. The magic that associates a running process with an App class is not 100% clear in my head, since Cassia is based on CobiWindowList and much of the code for group management is unaltered in Cassia from the CobiWindowList base I started from. But I believe the WM_CLASS is what the Shell uses to map a window to it's desktop file. Typically a Linux application will include a desktop file when it is installed and that is how the Shell.App knows about the new application and in turn how the new application shows up in the main menu so that it can be launched. Window lists will query the Shell to get the App for any new windows that appear. Grouping window lists will use the App as the means to decide which group the new window belongs to. In some cases the Shell will fail to find an App for the new window and therefore the window-list will have no means to decided if the new window belongs in a group with other windows. It should be the case that Cassia behaves the same as the default Cinnamon Grouped WindowList and CobiWindowList with regards to how windows are grouped. Open a GitHub issue for me if that's not the case. If the IntelliJ package you installed did not provide a desktop file, then you will need to provide one for it to be grouped. I think the easiest way to define a new desktop file would be to right-click on the main-menu and select "Edit menu" then navigate to the category you want IntelliJ to be part of and click the "New Item" button. If you have a desktop file and the window-list is not associating new windows with the launcher that appears due to that desktop files existance then you might need to add a "StartupWMClass=..." line to the desktop file. You can determine the WM_CLASS by opening a terminal and typing "xprop WM_CLASS" then clicking on the window of a running IntelliJ. This will print the WM_CLASS in the terminal for IntelliJ. Then you can use that for the "StartupWMClass=..." entry in the dekstop file. Hope this helps!

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

Version 2.4.0 fixes the issues when running under Cinnamon 6.4. Be sure to upgrade to this version BEFORE you upgrade your system to Cinnamon 6.4.

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

Currently broken on Cinnamon 6.4, but I am working on some fixes. Hope to have a new version out soon to address the issues. Applying Cobinja's fixes for CobiWindowList into CassiaWindowList makes it not freeze Cinnamon, but there are other issues that need to be addressed in Cassia so I need a bit more time.

Michele Capobianco-5 months ago

First of all, I love the Applet! Only one thing i miss (or i did not found it). I have some shortcuts pinned in the "taskbar" Specially Google Chrome. I open Google Chrome. All works well. Then when i hit Shift click, a new Window opens. All as it should. BUT! The new window is "at the end" of the Icon list. Unlike Windows10 where the new Window is right next to the first window. Is there any config where you can have a the new Window next to it (not grouped, with the Window Title)?

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

If I am understands you correctly, I think what you want is to change the configuration setting "Window list behavior style" to "Pooled". This will force all windows for the same application to pool together on the window list. I like to use that in combination with the "Display labels for generic window list buttons" option set to "One per application pool" so that only one label is use for each set of application windows, but the pooling works the same even if you allow each window list button to have it's own label. I hope this gives you the behavior that you are looking for. If not please try and clarify what you were hoping for and maybe I can help.

Michele Capobianco-5 months ago

Worked like a charm! I was playing around with the "Pooled" setting. But as usual, when you switch around multiple settings it get confused. Thanks a lot!

spaceghost24-6 months ago

Is it possible to add the option to disable the scroll-to-the-left animation when you close a window from the list of thumbnails, or at least to make it faster? (Unless I've simply missed such an option in the settings?)

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

The fix is in version 2.3.9 on cinnamon spices now.

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

How are you closing the window? Clicking on the red "X" button on the thumbnail menu item or using a mouse action like setting up the middle button to close a window when clinking on thumbnail menu item? I tried both on my machine but in both cases the thumbnail menu closes after closing the window, so I don't think I am fully understanding the issue you are reporting here. If possible maybe you can screen-record the issue that you are talking about?

spaceghost24-6 months ago

Sorry that I was unclear! The thumbnail is disappearing just fine when I close the window (regardless of whether I'm using the x button or the middle click). However, if there are still other open thumbnails in the list, there's a little animation where the thumbnail collapses from the right to the left before disappearing. Here's an demonstration of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/AAYwvXd I like being able to pick and choose which windows to close from the thumbnail list when I have a lot of windows open, but I'd really like to be able to speed up or disable that animation, if that's at all possible. No worries if not. :)

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

That is strange indeed.. I'll see if I can recreate that. What cinnamon version are you using and what desktop theme are you using? Also, what is the "System Settings->Effect->Closing Windows" option set to, or are you using Burn My Windows extension? Just want to know what happens when a window is closed. I suspect that this might be some animation happening before the window is actually closed. Lastly, I assume you are running the latest version of Cassia 2.3.8?

spaceghost24-6 months ago

I'm using a non-default theme (yaru-cinnamon-dark), but if I switch to mint-l the animation seems to remain the same. My window closing animation is set to "none" and I'm not using any other extension that should affect it, as far as I know. My cinnamon version is 6.2.9 and I am indeed using the latest version of Cassia. Didn't realize I'd stumbled on a bug, I thought it was meant to be a feature!

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

The fix is in my CassiaWindowList Github repo now. I have a few more changes to make before I push a new version to the spices repo.

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

OK.. It was a bug in CobiWindowList which is the code base I started with when building CassiaWindowList. The animation that is used when closing a Thumbnail menu item was shrinking the width of the item until it disappeared (zero width). This worked fine for horizontal panels, but for vertical panels it should have been shrinking the height. At this point the animation time is hard-coded to 0.5 sec in Cassia, but I think I will change that to 0.2 sec. I could make it configurable but I would like to avoid adding more options if I can. If you feel strongly about this being a configurable option then I can consider it a bit more.

spaceghost24-6 months ago

Changing it globally is fine with me! I'd also assume it seems much faster when it's actually doing something (shrinking the size of the thumbnail list) instead of making you wait around until it finishes, haha. Thanks for looking into it so quickly. I really appreciate all the work you put into this little applet. :-)

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

I was able to recreate the issue. I'll see what I can do about it. Thanks for reporting the issue.

Kevin Langman-6 months ago

Looking to get people opinion on a small thing. The "down-arrow" currently used to indicate a window is "minimized". When the window-list is on the top panel should the minimized arrow be an "up-arrow" or is it best to always indicate a window is minimized using a "down-arrow" no matter what panel the window-list is on?

Francesco Petri-6 months ago

I think it'd be more intuitive if the arrow pointed "away" from the main workspace. So up for the top panel, down for the bottom panel, ...

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

No opposition to using the "up arrow" when on the top panel so I made this change in my repo and will push this change to spices with the next version.

binarynoise-7 months ago

Does an option for the "pooled" mode exist to close all instances of an application? If not, would it be possible to add one?

Kevin Langman-7 months ago

The new options where added in version 2.3.6.

binarynoise-7 months ago

Thank you very much!

Kevin Langman-7 months ago

I added the feature to my github version, but I will wait for more testing time before I push to cinnamon-spices. If you really what the feature now you can install my github version for now.

Kevin Langman-7 months ago

No, that option does not exist, but it's a good idea. It exists when you right-click on a "grouped" button, but not when you right-click on a button in a "pool". I'll add that feature in, but I am really busy for the next 3 weeks so it might be later in the month when it gets done. You can open an issue in my github if you what to make sure it doesn't get forgotten! Thanks for the suggestion!!

superian-8 months ago

Thank you again for having added the 'always on top' option. The one issue I have been having is that the list of open windows in the workspace and the launchers for browser / terminal / file manager are fixed to the right hand side (on my panel, where the workspace switcher is) rather than on the left (where the menu is). Am I missing something in the options? Trying to use Cinnamon's move applet doesn't work.

Kevin Langman-8 months ago

If I am understanding your description correctly, the window-list and the pinned applications in the window-list are on the right side of the panel rather then the left side of the panel where you what them to be be? If that's the case then you simply need to right-click on some empty section of the panel and turn on the "Panel edit mode". Now the left side of the panel will be red, the centre will be green and the right will be blue. At this point you can left-click (and hold) on the window-list to drag it to into one of the red coloured area on the left (make sure the mouse cursor is in the red zone and not just the window-list shadow) then drop in the location you like within the left red zone. Be sure to drop it on the right of the menu applet. Once you have all the elements of the panel in the place you want then you can right-click on a empty section of the panel again and disable the "Panel edit mode". Now you can interact with the panel applets as normal again and all the applets should be where you placed them when in edit-mode. Let me know if I got your meaning right and this is the right solution for your problem.

superian-8 months ago

Ahhh - I was dropping next to the red area (between the red and green bits) and it wasn't sticking to that. Dropping in the red area has worked, thank you. It's an example of the way Cinnamon works slightly differently to MATE / Gnome2.. without that necessarily being documented in something easy to find :)

Kevin Langman-8 months ago

Glad I could help.

superian-8 months ago

('right side' of the space between the menu and workplace switcher!)

Paul Birkholtz-9 months ago

Do you know how I get the "add to panel" option in the menu to add a shortcut to your applet instead of just creating a default panel launcher? Also when starting up your applets setup it asks if I want a launcher or grouped window list.... Is this both or do I need 2 of them per panel? Thank you for your work!!!

Kevin Langman-9 months ago

A Cassia instance can be a panel launcher (showing only pinned buttons) or a window list (showing both pinned buttons and any running application). Since the window-list behaviour (i.e. "Window list behaviour style" set to something other than "launcher") shows running applications and pinned buttons, a single instance can be a panel launcher and a window-list at the same time. But if you wanted to have pinned (launcher) buttons on a separate panel or in a different location on the same panel (i.e. a window-list in the middle and launcher/pinned buttons on the right) then two different instances is the way to go, with one instance set as a panel launcher. In the window-list button context menu there will be two options (if pinning was not disabled in the config, and a panel launcher of any kind exists on a panel); one option called "Pin to panel" and another called "Pin to launcher". The "pin to panel" option will pin the selected button to the current window-list applet instance. The "Pin to launcher" option will added a button to the launcher applet for the application of the selected window-list button. I think this answer to your 1st question also clears up the 2nd question. Let me know if you need more clarification.

spaceghost24-9 months ago

I believe their first question was referring to the context menu in the start menu applet, which has an "add to panel" option that only seems to work for the default window list and doesn't affect this one. I actually just came here to ask about it, because as far as I can tell there isn't any other way to pin applications to this applet besides using the context menu beside an open window (although please correct me if I missed some other way). This is a problem for me because I have several "orphaned" launchers, which can never show up in the window list because the applications they open are associated with some other launcher. They do show up in the start menu, so I'm able to pin them to the default window list using the context menu there, but I wasn't able to find a way to pin them to this applet. Integrating it with the start menu the way the default window list does would be ideal, but any way to pin an application without requiring the icon to already be in the window list would be great really. (By the way, I just switched over to this applet for the ability to pin different apps to each desktop, but I really like how clean it looks!)

Kevin Langman-9 months ago

Oh.. I see, yes, I miss read Paul's message.. Sorry Paul. The menu's "Add to panel" option is associated with the "panellauncher" role. If you look at your ~/.xsession-errors file, during Cinnamon startup you will see messages like this: Gjs-Message: 23:07:57.583: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/info] Role locked: panellauncher Gjs-Message: 23:07:58.055: JS LOG: [LookingGlass/info] Loaded applet CassiaWindowList@klangman in 529 ms In my case, because the "Loaded applet" message for CassiaWindowList is right after the "Role locked: panellauncher" message, it means the Cassia got this role. Since this role locking is based on the order Applets are loaded, I have added code in Cassia to forward the pin actions to a PanelLaunchers applet if one is found. First it looks for a Cassia instance set to Launcher mode, then it looks for a Cinnamon PannelLaunchers applet instance. If one is found it calls the API to pin to that applet instead. The idea being, if you have a launcher applet instance, you likely want that applet to have the new pinned app. If no suitable applet instance is found then it will pin to Cassia window-list that has the role lock. So maybe all you need to do is remove the PanelLaunchers applet instance and restart Cinnamon? Another way you can pin an app to the Cassia window list is to use drag&drop. Simply open the Cinnamon menu, navigate to the app you want to pin, then drag it into the window-list and drop. Hope this helps. And I hope I got it right this time :-)

spaceghost24-9 months ago

Thanks, this does help. I thought I'd tried drag-and-drop already, but I must have done it wrong, because it worked just fine this time. :)

nil-9 months ago

Thanks again for your work :-) sorry for my English I noticed this feature with icons larger than 24px - they appear slightly blurry on the panel. I don’t know how correct this is, but I solved this problem for myself by changing the line this.iconSize = this._applet.getPanelIconSize(St.IconType.FULLCOLOR) -2; By removing the "-2" - and the icons on the panel became clear.

Kevin Langman-9 months ago

That "-2" was also a bit of a mystery to me, it was part of the CobiWindowList base that I forked my window list from. I think I removed it once as a test and thought it caused the icon to overlap the "active" highlight at the bottom on the buttons under some panel/icon configurations, but that might have been just my perception at the time. I'll try playing with removing the "-2" again to see if I can find any negative effects this time, i'll let you know what I find..... I believe the blurriness is caused by the icon not being a perfect match with the source icon pixel size causing the image to be expanded or shrunk from a smaller/larger icon file. Its my guess that you have the cinnamon panel setting for "Colored icon size" set to "Scale to panel size exactly". You might be better off to use a specific size that gives you the best results for your panel height. Personally I am using a panel height of "35" with a colored icon size of "32px".

nil-9 months ago

I don't know how to attach images here. Icons size 32px. As an example: default, "-2" https://i.postimg.cc/8zpDw7Nc/2.png and "0" https://i.postimg.cc/g22F81H6/0.png in the latter case the icons are clear

Kevin Langman-9 months ago

Ya, I can see the blurriness. You set "Colored icon size" in the panel setting (under the 'Panel appearance section' for the appropriate 'Zone') to 32px? And what is the "Panel Height" you have set?

nil-9 months ago

Colored icon size = 32 Panel Height = 40

Kevin Langman-9 months ago

Actually that "-2" was not part of the CobiWindowList I forked from. It was my stupid idea after all. I was hoping to prevent the icon from overlapping the active highlight in some cases, but the end result is that it forces icon scaling and fails to follow the users panel settings. The best way to handle the issue I was worried about is to use better panel settings that do not cause the overlapping. I'll revert that in a few days. Thanks for reporting the problem!!

nil-9 months ago

Thanks for developing and supporting the applet.

Kevin Langman-9 months ago

I pushed version 2.3.2 to Cinnamon Spices. The -2 should be gone now!

Fot0n-10 months ago

The most important applet in the catalog (IMHO). It would be great if the Mint team included it as a default feature. Thank you for what you do.

Kevin Langman-10 months ago

Thanks for the comments. I am so glad you like my applet. Since this applet has a ton of options and it is targeted at power users, it might be best for the default window list to remain as something far less complicated for new users. But who knows, maybe some day the most popular features might get ported to the default window-list... Lastly, If you happen to see any bugs or have some improvement suggestions feel free to open an issue. Thanks!

elemmaiii-1 year ago

Ever thought about having an option to only have the current displayed window shown as an icon and/or label while other window icons are hidden?

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

So you would like to see just one window-list button, a button for the window that currently has the focus? That would mean you could not use the window-list to change focus to any other window. Maybe I am not fully understanding what your suggestion is?

elemmaiii-1 year ago

You have it right. In one panel there would be all the windows and the ability to switch windows via cursor as it's currently configured (auto-hiding like a dock), but in another panel (for me the top panel) I'd just have the one window highlighted that's the focused window. Similar to Gnome's application identifier thingy, but it would be cooler than Gnome's because it's Cinnamon. Maybe an option for symbolic icons as well. Just throwing out ideas. Thanks for the response.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I see.. You are looking for an applet that will just show the window that currently has the focus (mostly information only, not much in the way of interactive features) and use a separate applet instance for the full window-list applet. Honestly, I think it would be best to have that as a completely different applet. The large amount of code for a full window-list is not needed for something like that. I'll think on it for a bit. Thanks for the suggestion!

Ded4lus-1 year ago

Excellent work, getting very mature, features and customizations well thought, best window manager out there (other DE included). Please keep going. Cheers.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

Thanks for the comment, nice to know my design decisions are are good ones.

nehaaso-1 year ago

An excellent extension, in my opinion much better than the built-in one by default. Just what I was looking for. Author, thank you very much for your work.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

Glad you like the applet. It's nice to know that people are finding it useful.

DjinnDjab-1 year ago

sadly this doesnt seem to play with will multiple monitors (i have 4). i cant seem to make it only show the buttons for only the windows on the corresponding monitor. i have tried all of the options

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I would also point out that the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option needs to be independently set on all monitors. Since the only way to have a window-list on each monitor is to add an applet instance to a panel on each monitor. Therefore the CassiaWindowList setting is also unique for each monitor. In your 4-monitor setup you would have 4 independent window-list instances running and you would have to set the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option 4 times to get the behaviour I believe you are looking for. I hope this helps!

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I didn't have to find an old monitor after all, I just needed to enable my laptop screen. Once I enabled the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option the window-list buttons for windows that I moved between monitors appear and disappear depend on which monitor the window is moved to. So the feature seems to be working as intended for me anyhow. Please verify that you have the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option enabled. If you still have the problem then maybe the issue only occurs under some specific configuration of the applet. Maybe I could take a look at your json config file and see if I can duplicate your setup??

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I assume you have enabled the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option on the General tab in the configuration dialog? I don't use that option much myself, so I will have to hook-up a 2nd monitor and give it a test. I use two monitors at the office but I am working from home this week so it might take a day or two to dig out my old monitor for testing. I'll let you know if I can recreate your issue.

fr4g3-1 year ago

Great Work Man, This applet is exactly what i was looking for.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I am glad you like the applet.

Nay-1 year ago

Amazing work man. Can you please implement the Super+<number> shortcut to switch/open apps? Maybe allow it to be set automatically on the "Description" field when setting the shortcuts. At the moment this functionality has to be manually set for each app in each workspace.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I just implemented a feature that might be more like what you are asking for. With this update you can add an hotkey for <Super>+1 and set the description to "All Buttons" which will cause <Super>+1 through <Super>+9 to be mapped to the first 9 windows on the window-list. As the description implies, this "All Window" hotkey is not limited to window for a single application. Also, you don't have to use the <Super> key, any combination of the modifier keys will work as long as you set the key sequence to be your desired modifier(s) with the "1" key. In addition you can use the <modifier(s)>+` key to show hint bubbles over all the window-list buttons.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

The changes have been pushed to my github repo, I'll push to cinnamon spices next week after some additional testing.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

In my below suggestion, I meant to say that the hotkey+1-9 would switch to *application* window 1-9 as ordered on the WindowList.. Hope that's more clear regarding my proposing here.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I had briefly considered how to implement such a feature before. Here is my idea now after thinking a bit more about it... If a hotkey sequence ends with "1" (i.e. Alt+1 or Super+1) and the "Description" can be matched with an application (i.e. App name, or desktop file name) then <Modifier_Key(s)>1-9 will switch to window 1-9 as ordered on the WindowList. Does that satisfy your feature request or did I misunderstand your meaning? "for each app in each workspace" -- The configuration of an applet is common across workspaces because applet instances persists across workspaces, but you do have to add new applet instances to different monitors which will not share a configuration. Is that what you were referring to?

alberbrando-1 year ago

Wooow...amazing how customizable is this applet.And the size of thumbnails is incredible.The best one.Keep on this way.Congrats.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I am glad you like it.

m-musikhin-1 year ago

Amazing! Thank you! Please return showing only one thumbnail above the cursor instead of all thumbnails in the pool.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I can add an option for that. Personally I find it handy to see all the application thumbnails for a pool but I can see how some might not like that.

m-musikhin-1 year ago

It would be great! Thank you

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

Already pushed the change to my github repository (along with a bunch of other fixes and features). I'll push all the changes to cinnamon-spices in a few days after running it for several workdays and testing in some different Mint version VMs.

m-musikhin-1 year ago

Thanks a lot. I usually have about 20 windows with chrome open, each with 20 tabs :). This setting helped me a lot. Another note, when you start chrome or other applications, regardless of the settings, the windows in the pool are added to the head. However, switching to launcher mode and back to the pool restores the correct window sequence.

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

Glad you like the applet. Adding new windows the the left of the pool was a decision I made to avoid odd label behaviour. If it was added to the right then the trailing button would have its label removed and the new window would have the label for the pool. This would result in and animated label removal and, at the same time, an animated label addition for the new button (assuming the default "one label for a pool configuration). I decided (with some reluctance) to add new pool windows to the left as a rule. Another option I had considered was to detach the label from the right most pool button for "one label" setting. This would leave a number of interesting other decisions like if the label should be set active (be underlined in Mint-Z/Y theme) and what should happen when you click the label. Another option was to add a new button to the left of the labelled button and swap the attached window for the new & labelled buttons, but I thought this might be confusing for users. I am open to other suggestions, but I thought adding to the left of pools was the least problematic solution. As for why changing the mode reorders the pool. When you change back to pooled mode all the windows are removed from window-list and re-added so that will change the order.

m-musikhin-1 year ago

it seems logical to me that a new window appears on the right in the pool, then the same sequence of windows is preserved when restoring chrome, vs code, etc. I saw similar behavior in KDE for me, window order is more important than animation and icon highlighting now I restore the order at startup and transfer the icon to the tail manually

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

OK.. I'll consider going back to adding new pooled app windows to the right of the pool.

m-musikhin-1 year ago

Can be in the form of an option like "add new window buttons ahead of trailing pinned buttons" Thank you! Your window list is the best!

Kevin Langman-1 year ago

I pushed the changes to my github repository. I'll push to cinnamon-spices after some testing. I fixed the animation a bit so it's less jarring when new pooled buttons are added to the right, so I decided against adding a new option and just have it hard-coded to add new pooled buttons to the right. If I get people telling me they liked it as it was before then I will add an option I suppose.

m-musikhin-1 year ago

Thanks a lot!!! Very comfortably!