Re: powershell/gnome-terminal

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Warren Young <tangent@cyberport.com>
To: Gnome List <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: powershell/gnome-terminal


> Miles Lane wrote:
> >
> > Warren Young wrote:
> > >
> > > This would be useful, but there's one critical feature it'd have to
> > > have: a way to switch between the windows like most window managers
> > > allow with Alt-Tab.  Preferrably the tab order should change every
time
> > > you switch do a different window: Alt-Tab should always take you back
to
> > > the previous window.  Otherwise, I'd rather stick with plain old
> > > gnome-terminal.
> >
> > I'd be pretty surprised if window managers could be fooled into
> > treating MDI windows as though they were separate X windows.
>
> It wouldn't have to work that way.  I don't mind using another key --
> Ctrl-Tab, perhaps? -- there just needs to be _a_ command for this.  Most
> likely, the terminal program would implement it directly.  I just wanted
> to make sure it was considered before people start rushing off to code
> the thing.


Ctrl-Tab is the standard way to move in a tabed dialog in Windows for what
it's worth.

--Ben