[Fluxbox-users] quick switching between different terminals

[Yose Widjaja]

Hello,

I've been using gnome quite a bit, and I've become quite dependent on gnome
taskbar's ability to group different programs of the same type together (e.g
nedit windows editing moo.cpp, foo.cpp, blah.cpp are bunched into one in the
taskbar). It's become pretty useful especially when I have 20+ nedit windows
and terminals open at the same time.

What is the easiest way to achieve this in fluxbox? If it's not possible,
how do I go about writing a fluxbox plugin/app that can handle this (and,
say, make it work like fbpager etc).

So yeah, any help/pointers will be much appreciated.

Cheers

[Alex Huth]

Post by Yose Widjaja
Hello,
I've been using gnome quite a bit, and I've become quite dependent on gnome
taskbar's ability to group different programs of the same type together (e.g
nedit windows editing moo.cpp, foo.cpp, blah.cpp are bunched into one in the
taskbar). It's become pretty useful especially when I have 20+ nedit windows
and terminals open at the same time.
What is the easiest way to achieve this in fluxbox? If it's not possible,
how do I go about writing a fluxbox plugin/app that can handle this (and,
say, make it work like fbpager etc).
So yeah, any help/pointers will be much appreciated.
Cheers

Have a look at the wiki. There is a example for grouping in the apps
file.

Greetings

Alex

[Yose Widjaja]

Thanks, but they group the windows together, as opposed to grouping in the
taskbar. Sorry, didn't make it too clear earlier..

Will this still be possible?

Post by Yose Widjaja

Post by Yose Widjaja
Hello,
I've been using gnome quite a bit, and I've become quite dependent on

gnome

Post by Yose Widjaja
taskbar's ability to group different programs of the same type together

(e.g

Post by Yose Widjaja
nedit windows editing moo.cpp, foo.cpp, blah.cpp are bunched into one in

the

Post by Yose Widjaja
taskbar). It's become pretty useful especially when I have 20+ nedit

windows

Post by Yose Widjaja
and terminals open at the same time.
What is the easiest way to achieve this in fluxbox? If it's not possible,
how do I go about writing a fluxbox plugin/app that can handle this (and,
say, make it work like fbpager etc).
So yeah, any help/pointers will be much appreciated.
Cheers

Have a look at the wiki. There is a example for grouping in the apps
file.
Greetings
Alex
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[Fernando M. Maresca]

Post by Yose Widjaja
Thanks, but they group the windows together, as opposed to grouping in the
taskbar. Sorry, didn't make it too clear earlier..

Sorry, I can't understand what you want to do.

In my previous example, grouping the xterm windows together in each WS
makes:
- one window with several entries in the window titlebar, one for each
xterm open
- one taskbar entry for the whole "group" window

So I can manage the group window as any other non-group window (resize,
move, change to other WS) and alt-tab through the individual xterms. If
the only window in a given ws is a xterm-group window, then it's always
focused.

I'm missing something?

And you always can install gnome-terminal and run it under fluxbox ;-)

Best regards,
Fer

[Fernando M. Maresca]

Hi,
you can merge them in one "window" with:

[group] (workspace=[current])
[app] (name=xterm) (class=XTerm)
[end]

in ~/.fluxbox/apps.
That make a group of all xterms in one window in each workspace.

Best regards,
Fer

Post by Yose Widjaja
Hello,
I've been using gnome quite a bit, and I've become quite dependent on gnome
taskbar's ability to group different programs of the same type together (e.g
nedit windows editing moo.cpp, foo.cpp, blah.cpp are bunched into one in the
taskbar). It's become pretty useful especially when I have 20+ nedit windows
and terminals open at the same time.
What is the easiest way to achieve this in fluxbox? If it's not possible, how
do I go about writing a fluxbox plugin/app that can handle this (and, say, make
it work like fbpager etc).
So yeah, any help/pointers will be much appreciated.
Cheers
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