Re: Hiding minimized windows from Overview?

[Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com>]

Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 à 18:25 -0300, theblues gnr a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I wanted to say that I really love GNOME 3, nice work all. :)
> 
> 
> One thing I'm missing is a way to get windows out of the way when I
> don't want to work with them. For instance, I keep Evolution running
> 100% of the time but only check it every now and then. Same with
> Banshee, it's always running but I spend very little time with its
> window. 
> 
> 
> I figured minimizing would do the trick, and I could get the window
> back using the dash icon (that already works). Problem is that
> minimized windows appear in the overview, and I only want the windows
> I'm working with to appear in the overview. 
> 
> 
> Any pointers on how I could hack mutter or the shell to make minimized
> windows not appear in the overview mode? 
> 
> 
> Also, if anyone has a link on the shell's planned design for
> minimizing I'd love to read about it.
> 

Hi,

maybe you should read / comment these bug reports:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467829
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650460

I really think this is a part of GNOME that still needs a bit of
polishing.