windownow 0.9.6

Switch desktop's windows by typing their titles, name, etc.

About

Switch desktop’s windows by typing text from their title, application name, etc.

Now experimentally works on Microsoft Windows.

Installation & running

pip install windownow

$ windownow

Keyboard

• control+p: highlight previous item

• control+n: highlight next item

• enter | return: hide windownow and raise highlighted window

• esc:

  • if typed any filter letter:

    reset filter

  • if no filter string typed:

    hide windownow

Requirements

System enviroment should have installed this packages:

• python-gtk2 (or higher)

• python-keybinder

• python-wnck

• python-wxgtk2.8 (or higher)

Check for above packages with your linux distribution package manager, like:

aptitude install python-gtk2

or (if package not found):

aptitude search python-gtk2

in Ubuntu | Debian If You don’t have aptitude application execute:

sudo apt-get install aptitude

Links:

• source on Bitbucket

Authors

windowNow was written by xliiv.