[openbox] expose for openbox?

Miek Gieben miekg at atoom.net
Sun Feb 1 07:59:10 EST 2004


[On 01 Feb, @02:04, Tim wrote in "Re: [openbox] expose for openb ..."]
> El dom, 01-02-2004 a las 02:36, Miek Gieben escribió:
> > Would it be possible to create an expose like thing for openbox?
> > See:
> > http://www.pycage.de/software_expocity.html
> > and
> > http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/
> 
> Nothing is impossible.
> 
> Whether anyone does this or not is another matter.
> 
> I would not recommend that you go writing your patch straight away.  In
> order for it to work well, you'd need to utilise the new X extensions
> being developed by Keith Packard on freedesktop.org, and they are still
> a long way from being mature.

Thanks for your reply. Expocity (based on metacity) currently has this
functionality and I tested it here. It worked quite nicely, although rather
slow.

But it sure looks cool to do "expose" all your windows on a desktop :-)

grtz
      Miek



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