Supersubsomething
It’s been a quite a few months where nothing happened with superswitcher (or actually anything at all from me on the OSS front), but my eleventy-half loyal users will be happy to know that it now has...
View ArticleCAPS LOCK, HOW I LOVE THEE
It’s nowhere near “release early, release often”, but superswitcher 0.4 is finally out. The project is now hosted on Google Code, which means a subversion repository, an issue (bug) tracker, an...
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Been There, Done That, Got Loads of Free T-Shirts
Linux.conf.au was pretty cool – there were OLPCs to play with, faces put with names (and nicks), an awesome Open Day full of shiny demos, and a luncheon pilgrimage to the Red Hat Noodle Bar. I gave a...
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Shameless Plug (of a Memory Leak)
Superswitcher version 0.5 is out. Plugged a memory leak. Previously, we were not destroying cairo contexts. First draft of a D-Bus interface. New add and remove workspace buttons. Respects #define...
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Hello, World
I mean, g’day Planet. Hi. I’m Nigel Tao. You might know me from such GNOMEly things as: The Deskbar applet, now going places (without my help) such as Big Board, and Sebastian Pölsterl‘s refactoring...
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P1mp My Switcher
Thanks to John Stowers’ link drop (and his offhand remark that someone could "use this as the basis for window previews in libwnck") and a rainy Sunday, I’ve now added some XComposite / XRender...
View ArticleWhen a Switch is On, It’s On
I’ve just rolled version 0.6 of Superswitcher – a compelling replacement for Alt-Tab. You can find the download links (source tarball, or Ubuntu .deb packages) off the project homepage. Tijl Van den...
View ArticleLook, Mum. Fans!
Some stranger (and former Ion-head) called Sean has nice words to say about Superswitcher, saving him the effort of writing his own “go to window by name” program. Superswitcher wasn’t actually...
View ArticleThe Road to One Point Zerodom
A comment on my previous blog post asks, “when are you going to release a new version of Superswitcher?” For those who don’t know, superswitcher is my window management utility that aims to be a...
View ArticleSo Long, and Thanks For the Super Switching
Some years ago, I wrote (and blogged about) a window switching utility, an Alt-Tab replacement called SuperSwitcher. Given the trend in Linux UIs like GNOME3 and Unity, I went all in and wrote my own...
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