Five Compiz features to boost Linux productivity
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| The cube is perhaps the most hyped feature of the 3D desktop. And,
| surprisingly, I found that once you actually start using it Cube is actually
| quite useful, and not just flashy. When cube is enabled you can use the
| Ctrl-Alt key combination together with mouse to rotate the cube and display
| all the desktops you have active. It is remarkably easy to use and actually
| makes it easier to switch through desktops rapidly.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2006
Related:
Shelf Plugin preview
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| I’ve been working on a new Compiz Fusion plugin currently known as Shelf (it
| was named miniwin2 for a brief period, more on this further down). This is a
| fairly straight forward idea, and I’m doing this as a bounty for Canonical.
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http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/12/12/shelf-plugin-preview/
How Beryl/XGL and Deskbar simplified my life
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| I removed the standard Gnome Window List in favor of
| Beryl's Scale plugin. Beryl's Scale functionality
| resembles OSX's Expose functionality. Because the Scale
| plugin displays all the windows currently open and
| unminimized at a keypress, I can quickly find the
| window I want visually and select it either with
| the mouse or with the arrow keys.
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http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/2006/10/25/how-berylxgl-and-deskbar-simplified-my-life/
http://tinyurl.com/u2g3d
Katapulting away from the menu.
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| Katapult not only does programs it also does your browser bookmarks as well.
| Not just Konqueror but Firefox too. Just slingshot katapult into action with
| the changable key combination and start typing the name of your desired
| bookmark. Katapult again does its autocomplete magic and brings up your
| closest matching browser bookmark.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/katapulting-away-from-the-menu-21321
Launch your programs faster with Katapult
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| One of the biggest navigational issues with any operating system is
| using program menus. Windows users have to open the Start Menu, scan
| for the program, realize that the program is probably in the subfolder
| under the programmer?s name, scan the appropriate subfolder, and then
| click on the program?s icon. Macintosh users must open Finder, find
| and click on the Applications folder, and then search for the
| program's name. GNOME and KDE users have an advantage: they have
| categories in their respective Applications and K menus.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/katapult
Analyst slams Vista's 'backward' UI
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| Windows Vista is a step back in usability, researcher claims
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17334
Vista: Slow and Dangerous
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| The most exasperating thing about Vista, though, is the security
| feature called User Account Control. UAC, satirized in an Apple
| ad as a security guy who constantly interrupts a conversation,
| appears as a pop-up asking permission before Windows...
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http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/BusinessWeek/2007/03/26/3124001
Freely rotate windows. New plugin I found October 22, 2007
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| I found this great new plugin which allows you to freely rotate windows in
| any direction that you want. It is called ‘freewins’
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http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/freely-rotate-windows-new-plugin-i-found/#comment-1830
Productivity Cubed
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| During a recent podcast appearance with Senors Asay, Rosenberg, and Vance,
| Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth discussed the 3D desktop capabilities offered
| in the latest iteration of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon. Given that I’ve been using
| Gutsy for a few months, and using said 3D functionality off and on I had a
| special interest in his comments. Among other things, he expressed his hope
| that the various communities that provide and consume the functionality would
| seek ways to apply the new capabilities to the task of making the user more
| productive.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/10/17/productivity-cubed/
howto enhance your workflow with beryl
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| Problem is, I spread my applications across all 4 desktops, so
| that things feel uncluttered when I'm working on an application.
| However, when you want to keep an eye on several applications at
| a time, it's impossible - except, if you have beryl. What I do
| is set one of the corners of my desktop to activate the scale
| plugin to show all windows from all desktops (see here for a
| more detailed explanation). I also make sure that it shows
| minimised windows.
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http://www.liquidweather.net/howto/index.php?id=101
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