Comments on: Using Compiz As A Window Management Tool

By: Wall Switch

Wall Switch — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Please give me more information. I love it, Thanks again.

By: AniDev

AniDev — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:29:00 +0000

It has eye candy, but you can turn that off. The purpose of this article was to describe how Compiz can be still useful to people who do not want a flashy system but want a fast and productive one.

By: Hajialibaig

Hajialibaig — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:39:32 +0000

It still is useless eye candy.

By: JoshPrice

JoshPrice — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:36:55 +0000

That's true, I didn't mention the “hot corners” as I personally have never liked that method, but it sounds like you've set yours up much more cleverly and cohesively than I did. Thanks for the tip!

By: skriticos

skriticos — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:06:59 +0000

I customized my Compiz a long time ago. The article is right, but it misses one important thing: the power you get by mapping these actions to screen edges..
I mapped the application switcher, the expo plugin, and the scale plugin to the corners of the screen with a mouse click (move mouse in the corner, press a mouse button). Then I mapped the wall plugin to the edges of the screen, also with a mouse click. Disabled the Shift-switcher and enabled the scale add-ons.
Combined with select pasting (with emulated middle mouse button) I can perform nearly all window management tasks with the mouse, and that very fast and instinctive.
I can also rely on the keyboard of course, but I don't have to use both any more (i.e. Alt+Tab-ing is out the window in “mouse mode”).

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:00:36 +0000

Eventually, every desktop will provide what the Enlightenment window manager did ten years ago. I agree that good pagers are one of the most important desktop productivity tools available. E16 provides as many virutual desktops with as many virtual screens as you might want. My peak use was seven virtual desktops providing 63 virtual screens as a 3×3 grids. Not all screens were used but the central cross was mostly filled and many of the corner screens were also used. This worked out of the box with Etch on a PIII with half a gig of RAM, so I'm sure it will work for you. All bets are off if you use Flash but Skpe works well. E16 also did composit right, so that it would work smoothly even without GPU acceleration.

By: JoshPrice

JoshPrice — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:29:15 +0000

Typo, corrected. Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:29:57 +0000

You might want to more carefully consider your title. Compiz is not a Windows management tool. It is a *window* management tool – for Linux.

I came here wondering how one would use Compiz to manage Windows (i.e. MS Windows)….

By: Kkooky

Kkooky — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:18:16 +0000

Along with the switchers mentioned above, there is a 'cover' option.

By: mangwills

mangwills — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:11:03 +0000

The Grid plugin is also very useful. It lets you position the current window to fill the top, left, right, bottom of the screen with shortcut keys.

By: JoshPrice

JoshPrice — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:12:14 +0000

As noted near the beginning, these are all plugins built in to the CompizConfig Settings Manager, which is available for download on most major distros. Ubuntu users, for example, can install with “sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager”, and run it from the menu or with the command “ccsm”

By: Azizrahman

Azizrahman — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:08:32 +0000

where are download links……?