alt-tab to panel

[Bernhard Walle]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 22:56 (+0200), Francois Le Clainche wrote:
> Le jeudi 19 juin 2003 à 22:37, Bernhard Walle a écrit:
> 
> > > The bad side effect is that a detached menu does not receive the focus
> > > with alt-tab anymore, and a gkrellm or a panel hidden by mistake are
> > > lost, aren't they ?
>  
> > Do you really want to have gkrellm or a deteached menu in Alt-Tab but
> > not the panel itself? I think that makes no sense.
> 
> What I mean is : if you hide by mistake gkrellm or the panel (ie by
> using focus follow mouse and press Alt+F8 while the mouse pointer 
> is, by mistake, over the panel frame), how do you make them appear
> again ? They are not in the taskbar, in the iconbox, in the root menu
> and neither in the alt-tab list. Tell me if I'm wrong.

You're right. I personally would prefer to display hidden windows in the
right-click-desktop menu. And then binding a keyboard shortcut to this menu 
so that access via keyboard is possible.


Regards,
Bernhard

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