I just found out that the Scale plugin of Compiz can do more than just showing all opened windows next to each other: as long as you keep the Super key pressed you can search for the right window by typing.
It is case-sensitive, but apart from that I really like this feature. Go, Compiz devs!
You can disable the case sensitivity in options, and afaik it doesn’t require the super key pressed down by default.
Works great though.
Thanks for the tip.
@Vadim if I initiate scale with a keyboard shortcut I have to keep that pressed whilst typing to search. If I initiate with the mouse then I can just type away.
Either way, a neat feature.
How do you make Compiz + Scale work with just pressing and automatically achieving the same effect as ++Up.
The toggle works for shift super up, but i just want to use the windows key to activate scale.
Anyone know?
What do you mean with '++Up'?
In the old version of Ubuntu 9.10, i would just press the key, and the compiz Scale Plugin would work and scale my windows.
I installed the new Ubuntu 11.10, and Fedora 14,15,16 too; but with the compiz scale, I cant figure out how to just scale with pressing . The default of Shift+Super+Up works fine, but I want it just to be .
Both of the below versions exhibit the same problem. Any ideas?
myfed14box$ compiz –version
compiz 0.8.6
myfed16box$ compiz –version
Compiz 0.9.5.92.1
Any ideas? Thanks so much.
You could try to install the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) to change the shortcut.