Re: Alt+tab and wine apps

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 08:01 -0600, Josh Adams a écrit :
> So I hadn't cared about the alt-tab behaviour until this weekend.  I
> love playing starcraft2, and to do this effectively with my teammates
> I need to run both SC2 and Ventrilo, both in wine.  My problem with
> alt+tab is that all wine apps show up under the same category.  It was
> actually HUGELY painful for me to try to effectively alt+tab from one
> to the other.  I actually NEVER figured out how to do it effectively,
> and resorted to the mouse (I'm a massive power-user, so the fact that
> I was forced to do this grates on my nerves).  In other news, the
> shell on the whole is getting really amazing.  I've used it off and on
> since the earliest days and it's really come a long way.
Yes, that's a problem that should be fixed by using the new application
launching APIs from GLib 2.28, by associating the .desktop file with the
Wine app so that it appears separately. Colin, am I right?

> How can one, with only a keyboard, navigate quickly and easily into
> one of the little alt+tab submenus?  Is this documented somewhere?  Is
> the alt+tab behaviour expected to change any in the future?
At least, you can use the arrows to find you window. Not as easy as
hitting tab another time, but Down + Right should work for your case.


Regards