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Still needs work
Authored by: adrianu on Nov 07, '01 07:30:35PM



"Still needs work"

Guess that's why I'm still working... ;-)


"keystroke to switch between windows"

Command key shortcuts (including this) are due real soon...


"virtual desktops"

Never seen the point of these -I always found it more efficient to use the "Hide Application" capabilities of MacOS/OSX -try training yourself for two/three weeks to hit Cmd-H (or option-click in another app's window to hide the current app) and see if you find it better... (I always watch with amusement as I see other X11 users mousing/switching from virtual desktop to virtual desktop looking for that elusive window. :-)

But I am (right now!) updating OroborOSX so it can group together X11 windows into "X11 apps" and then allow operations to be performed on the group (i.e. bring forwards, hide, minimise, etc.) I think that will improve the situation somewhat.


Another thing missing is auto-focus (otherwise known as "focus-follows-mouse") -but there are technical reasons (to do with XDarwin) why OroborOSX cannot do this with interleaving at the moment. (But I'm considering allowing it, for now, if interleaving is off and XDarwin/OroborOSX is frontmost...) -there's an item in the Window menu just waiting for this to be sorted out, so that auto-focus (and auto-raise) can be activated, not only globally, but on a per-window basis...


"startup programs functionality is a bit spotty"

Sorry, wasn't clear what you're referring to here? The interleaving script? The way it launches XDarwin? Or do you mean the StartupItems file...? (Or the lack of decent GUI for it?)


"looking forward eagerly to improvements!"

There's quite a few major changes still to come -so I am too! :-)


Thanks!

Adrian



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