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Post #2571018

2026-05-10 12:29 UTC

@the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Yes. Another nice trick (not RISC OS, AFAIK) is tabbing windows. See the Fluxbox X11 window manager. However, it's not an easily discovered feature. And given the fact how-g'dafwul-many people keep all their windows maximized, back-to-stack is virtually indistinguishable from minimization for that subset of users. A genuinely useful feature, and discoverable at that, is window shading/rollup. That is easy to understand.

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  • @the_wub@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 12:37

    @datenwolf@chaos.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Cough! Rolling up wasn't intuitive the first time I encountered it. As XFCE, unlike RISC OS opens windows directly above each other. The title bar of a rolled up window that still has focus can look like it belongs to the window beneath it. Took me a few minutes to work that out and ever since I have configured the Linux desktops I use such that the rollup button is on the title bar so I can un-roll it. RISC OS IIRC staggers overlapping windows when you open a new one.

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