Re: Graphical workspace switcher?

Hi,

well one should be able to achieve something similar using SawfishPager. 
It can be placed, shown/hidden, resized on demand.

You would need a wrapper function that does remember original values for 
size, position, autohide etc. then the function should resize the pager, 
disable auto-hiding it and place it in the middle of the display.

Lastly the function would need to do clean up, so resetting position, 
auto-hiding setting and size. That should be it.

Maybe I'll cook something up for testing in a few days.

Regards,
Chris

On 26.08.2014 01:41, Brett Viren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Sawfish since it was sawmill and part of Gnome.  I
> recently took a divergence into Unity+compiz just to see what that was
> like.  Now I'm back to the comfort of sawfish (+MATE).
>
> There were some things about Unity that I liked.  One was the
> graphical workspace switcher (don't know the correct name) where you
> can type Super-s and see the entire NxM grid of workspaces spread
> across the screen along with their contents.  Then, either a mouse
> click on the desired workspace or select it with the arrow keys and
> ENTER to pick it.  I've played with the sawfish cabinet which is only
> recently news to me.  It's very nice and gives this kind of global
> view, but this workspace spread thing that Unity has offers more
> visual clues about which workspace is wanted.
>
> I don't suppose someone has cooked up something like this for sawfish,
> have they?
>
> If not, does anyone have an estimate of the effort needed to develop it?
>
> Cheers,
> -Brett.
>

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