[geeks] windows hacks for MacOS

Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Wed Oct 10 13:58:24 CDT 2007


On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:16 PM, N. Miller wrote:

> On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> Here is something that would help me a lot, coming from KDE: I want
>> to be able to right click on the title bar of a window to send the
>> window to the bottom of the pile.
>>
>> It helps when the screen is cluttered.
>
> I don't know if there's something to do that.  You can "Hide" an
> application, which sends all it's windows away.  You can configure
> Expose to do various and sundry things.

No, I really want to just lower the window.  It's one of my favorite  
things about UNIX and X, and my favorite Windows hack.

Surely someone has done it for OS X.  I think the old MacOS had it.

I also like rolling up windows at times.

>> Also, is there any way to tell the app switcher (apple->tab) to move
>> through all windows of an application?
>
> <splat>-<backtick>
>
> "Splat" is the old-skool Mac geek term for the Command key.  Some
> folks call it the "curly" key or "cloverleaf" key, too.

I've been told about that, but sitting here right now, it only moves  
through the windows of the current application.

That's OK to get the job done I guess, but there are times when I  
really rather have a "move through all windows" key.

I'll get used to it.



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