Control Center Tools
Control Center tools provide some service functions of global window management. Here is the complete list of tools currently available in Actual Tools programs:
Default Audio Device Switcher | - allows to change the default audio device in two clicks. |
Desktop Icons Manager | - lets you preserve the habitual order of icons on your desktop. |
Drag to Scroll (Hand) | - allows to scroll windows by pressing and holding the specified mouse button anywhere within a scrollable area and dragging the mouse in a required direction. |
Easy Windows Dragging/Sizing | - simplifies and speeds up the most common window operations. |
Exposé Task Switcher | - provides an alternative user interface solution for task switching borrowed from Mac OS X. |
Lock Mouse in Monitor | - lets you lock the mouse pointer within a current monitor in two ways: hard or soft. |
Quick Window Settings | - displays special dialog where you can in a moment set up desired window's appearance using most of Actual Window Manager features combined together in an aggregated view. |
Scroll Inactive Windows | - allows to scroll windows with the mouse wheel without the need to activate them first. |
Unhide | - provides unified access to all alternatively minimized windows. |
Window Thumbnails | - generates a small preview thumbnail for each window and displays it as enhanced visual tip. |
Windowed Windows 8 (Modern, Metro) Apps | - allows to toggle new Windows 8/8.1-style applications into windowed mode and run them along with usual applications on the old good Windows Desktop. |
Windows Layout | - automatically preserves the overall relative layout of currently opened windows after a change of desktop resolution. |
Windows Monitoring Log | - tracks each new window appearance, retrieves this window's properties and stores them into the log file. |
Wrap the Desktop | - warps the mouse pointer automatically to the opposite edge of desktop when trying to drag the mouse beyond a desktop boundary. |