When I was sitting in class last Friday the professor was on a Mac. I had never personally seen Mac OSX in use but when he would switch from one window to another he would press some keyboard command and all the windows split apart and then he would click on one and it would be in the foreground and the rest would go back to their original places. Sorry if that doesn't make much sense, but it looked like the Mac Version of Alt-Tab. If there a Linux App that does somethign like this?

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Brandon

I think it's F11 in mac? Unfortunately nonexistent in Linux windowmanagers at the moment (to my knowledge). Not for long I'm sure

Yes, in Macintosh OS X it is called the Compose, and the other neat thing (widgets on screen) is called the Dashboard.

Kde has some equivilents, for the compose Kde has Kompose, and for the Dashboard Yahoo made a windows version and KDE has something called SuperKaramba.

Although SuperKaramba works a little different than the Dashboard, you can still get a lot of the same functionality.

Although Kompose is not yet as graphical as Compose, (it does not have the fade in while moving affects) it still performs the same functionality and holds a lot of potential.

Oh, I didn't know about KDE since my machine is underpowered for it. I like Xfce over anything anyways It's nice to know that such features are "under construction" in the Linux world also. Dashboard is real nice. Let's hope that such things get implemented in some sort of standard way for change. I don't think we want several different widget repositories (kde, gnome and so on) with varying collection of wigdets. Maybe XUL would be a good foundation for such things?

Alt-Tab works for more on Suse Linux.

Yes, it works practically everywhere, but it's usability is far from Mac OS's F11. Implementation is completely different.

You could look at Skippy which is a pretty lightweight Expose clone for linux. Skippy should run on most hardware you can throw at it, you can try Skippy-XD for the full Expose feel but it requires the Composite extension be enabled which mightn't be so impressive on older hardware

Well what do you know, Skippy is perfect Me happy. It's at http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php.

Sorry, I was out of town for awhile... but I'm emerging skippy right now! =] My buddy who uses Windows got whatever program does it on his machine to make me jealous... it did except for the fact that it's a Windows machine. But if this works, I'll be in now way Jelous of his machine.

Thanks guys
Brandon