I’ve never been a big user of Apple’s Exposé (KDE alternative: Komposé). Somehow Command-Tab (Alt-Tab on Windows) has been good enough for me. On OSX there’s an additional complication, however: If you want to switch applications, use Command-Tab. But if you want to switch windows within the same application (from one Terminal window to the next, from one Chat window to the next), you need to use Command-< (at least on a SwissGermanKeyboard).
In this context, using F9 to see all the windows of all the applications and using the mouse or the arrow keys to pick the window you want seems like a good idea.
If your applications us tabbed windows, however, you loose: You will never see windows hidden behind tabs. Just like you will never see the Emacs buffers that are not shown in a window. Is this a natural turning point for people with too many tasks?
I have no solution for Emacs, where I often have several dozen buffers open (eg. half a dozen IRC channels, half a dozen source files, an EmacsShell buffer, scratch, various directories, plus sometimes calendar or calculator). But for browsers, there is a solution: You can switch tabbed browsing on or off. So now I’m trying to live without tabbed browsing and using Exposé to navigate windows. At least for a while.
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C-x C-b is useful, as is either iswitchb or ido. =)
– SachaChua 2006-08-19 14:32 UTC
