Re: feature request: grouping two tiled windows

[Cyril Arnaud <cyril arnaud gmail com>]

Have you tried a middle clic on the window top bar ?
It will bring this window below the others, and you'll see your tile windows.

-Cyril

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:05 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le mardi 07 juin 2011 à 17:33 -0700, Lewis Chung a écrit :
> > Using alt+tab and the activities overview makes sense to me. However,
> > when I tile two windows next to each other, for example, evince and
> > libreoffice writer, and I switch to firefox, I expect to be able to
> > switch back to evince and libreoffice with a single activities toggle
> > (used to be able to do this by minimizing firefox, but cannot anymore
> > based on gnome-shell's defaults)
> > 
> > Right now I have to alt+tab to focus both of the windows to bring them
> > to the front. 
> That indeed makes much sense to me, I've already be bitten by this.
>
> > I was wondering if an extension some additional functionality could be
> > developed to allow me to open the activities overview and drag a
> > window on-top of another (grouping them), so that when I use overview,
> > I can click on the group to bring both to the front. Other methods of
> > grouping the windows together could work too, I just want to be able
> > to group two windows together so they can both be brought into focus
> > at the same time.
> I think this feature might even go into the core design instead of into
> an extension: that's the optimal behavior for all users. I'd suggest you
> ping the designers on #gnome-shell list (ask for mccann, aday or jimmac)
> to see what they think, and file a bug if they are OK. (I'll try to ask
> them too if I'm around at the right hours.)
>
>
> Regards
>
>
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