Window Acrobatics bundles a number of ways you are used to interacting with your windows and puts them right into your Squeak image. Current components of Window Acrobatics include
- The Window Aligner
- A tool that lets you align windows to specific parts of your screen easily as well as arrange them into tiles.
- The Expose View
- An overview of all currently open windows that lets you select and thus bring to front a window.
- The Window Switcher
- A switching tool that lets you cycle over your windows and switch between different Spaces.
Simply download the newest .sar file from the releases section and drag it into your image.
Do the following in a workspace:
Metacello new
baseline: #WindowAcrobatics;
repository: 'github://hpi-swa-teaching/WindowAcrobatics/packages';
load.You may need to activate WindowAcrobatics explicitly -- just follow the post-install instructions in your image!
You can easily customize all the shortcuts used in Window Acrobatics, as well as disable or enable its components, in the Window Acrobatics section in your Preference Browser -- here are the defaults.
| Cmd/Alt + | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow Right | Align window right |
| Arrow Left | Align window left |
| Arrow Up | Align window at the top |
| Arrow down | Align window at the bottom |
| l | Align window fullscreen |
| k | Arrange windows into tiles |
| w | Open Expose View |
| t | Switch between last used windows |
| q | Switch to left Space |
| e | Switch to right Space |
| shift+u | Cycle through windows of the same type |
If you are on a Mac, use Cmd and Alt otherwise.
Thanks to Marcel Taeumel for his work on Vivide and thus his substantial contributions to our Expose View.