Re: Minimizing windows in Gnome (Metacity)

[Petri Kanerva <petri kanerva surfeu fi>]

Use Sawfish. It can be done with it. It has a 'minimize all windows'
-option, that you can bind a key to.

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 01:05, Tudor Vinereanu wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a new Gnome user, and very impressed with it! I've installed Gnome
> 2.2.1, having been using 1.4 before that, and it's the sweetest
> desktop environment I've seen so far...
> 
> Now, I've been using Solaris with CDE running on Sun machines for a
> good few years now, and I like the way you can minimize windows on the
> desktop, as opposed to a panel. I wonder if one could do the same with
> Gnome? I got used to having the icons on the desktop and being able to
> minimize/maximize quickly with the Open key (unfortunately absent from
> a PC keyboard). I assume if I'd be able minimize windows on the
> desktop, I could bind some key to mimic the Open key on the Sun
> keyboard (e.g. Windows logo).
> 
> I'm using Metacity (2.4.34) as window manager, and the versions of
> Gnome packages are as per 2.2.1 release.
> 
> I'd appreciate any solutions/suggestions you may have, as RTFM/Google
> didn't give me any clues.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tudor
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