cygwin alt-tab

Thomas Chadwick j_tetazoo@hotmail.com
Wed Aug 27 18:30:00 GMT 2003


Have you tried XWin with the -multiwindow flag (and no Window Manager)?  In 
multiwindow mode each Xclient gets its own Windows Window, and hence will be 
included in the Alt-Tab cycle.

>From: Laura McWilliams <lmcwil@austin.ibm.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: cygwin alt-tab
>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:32:18 -0500 (CDT)
>
>hello,
>
>i'm a new cygwin user and i'm wondering if there's any way to cycle
>through windows, like using alt-tab, because alt-tab is captured by the
>OS.
>
>i realize this issue has been touched on before
>(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-07/msg00044.html)
>but i'm throwing it out there because i couldn't find any descriptions of
>a good solution.
>
>i'm using WindowMaker, and i can't find any other key sequence that cycles
>through the windows (although i think it would be a great solution if i
>could use something like cntl-alt-tab to cycle through the windows in
>the x window, and still allow alt-tab to cycle through Windows
>applications)
>
>so if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. thankx
>
>~L
>
>

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