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Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

finding a minimized window among 20 workspaces

i've just switched my display to a user i have not been on for quite a while (like 2 or 3 hours).  all i see is an empty workspace and workspace selector on the right side of the panel shows that workspace 0 is active and nothing unminimized (if even exists) in any of the other 19 workspaces.

what is the easiest, quickest, or best way to find a nearly full frame window i had in one of those workspaces that i had minimized before switching away to work on something else for a while?

i think the best way would be a way to show all the minimized windows in one place.  but i have never seen a way to do that.  another way would be a single keystroke to shift the active workspace one step to the right.  then i could step though all 19 other workspaces real fast instead of moving the mouse around on the workspace selector.

any ideas or suggestions?

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 528

Re: finding a minimized window among 20 workspaces

It's not a single key but ctl-alt-arrow will switch workspaces left/right/up/down and alt-tab will cycle through windows on the current workspace.

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: finding a minimized window among 20 workspaces

You could also middle-click on the desktop to get the window menu to display - it will display all open applications in one menu grouped by workspace. (Note: you need to have the window list menu enabled in desktop settings.

There is also a Window Menu plugin you can add to the panel that would do the same.

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