beryl: usability, parts 4 & 5
One problem I often find with switchers (both in beryl and in other window managers) is that they either only give an icon (for conventional switchers) or three thumbnails. While you can switch through those three thumbnails, if you've got 10 or 15 windows open, it becomes quite unweildy to flick through them, and quite often you end up pressing the tab key so fast, you often flick past the desired window, because you only see it once before it becomes the selected window, you don't have time to react. Beryl provides a couple of solutions to this issue. The first is the scale plugin, which I've explored in a few other articles. Alternatively there is the new wheel/rotation feature for the switcher.
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Before we had beryl and rotating desktop cubes, virtual desktops had a two dimensional "vibe". On some window managers, moving your mouse to the side of a desktop, and you'd flip to the virtual desktop "situated" immediately to the left or right of the current desktop. The rotating cube has become very popular in terms of giving virtual desktops a physical identity on your computer - I have to say, giving virtual desktops more physicality has certainly encouraged me to use them more than when they were switched by means of key press, but without giving each desktop its own physical "space" in the computer. The latest versions of beryl have a new plugin called "wall", which gives virtual desktops a 2d space.
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