Re: great job on Gnome 3

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:10:46AM -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> enaut wrote, On 03/20/2014 05:18 AM:
> 
>>> I'm also getting accustomed to bringing up the Activities view by
>>> pressing the Super key with my left ring finger.  (Now I'm
>>> starting to with I could use the Arrow keys in that view to choose
>>> a window -- as in, "Look Ma, no mouse!"  :)
>> 
>> Usually its easier to just type the name of the app you want as in
>> "look ma no leaving the writing position!". Worst case is that you
>> have to type 3 letters then enter then a couple of times alt+`.
> 
> Nice ... and you don't even have to use the literal name of the app.
> For example, icedove and iceweasel both start with "ice", but you
> can start typing the word "mail" or "browse" and takes you to the
> correct app.
> 
> I just did this:
> 
> Super + "bro" + Enter   (brought up my browser)
> Super + "ma" + Enter    (brought up my mail)
> Super + "t" + Enter     (brought up my terminals)
> 
> That's crazy cool.  Thanks!

Or use the extension windowNavigator[1].

/M

[1]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10/windownavigator/

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