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Actual Window Manager,
Actual Window Menu,
Actual Transparent Window,
Actual Window Minimizer,
Actual Window Rollup,
Actual Virtual Desktops.
The Window Menu trigger allows you the supplement of Windows
system window menu with easy, right-click context menu access to most of the
enhanced window actions available in Actual Tools programs.
These new context menu options include:
AltMin
- displays a submenu for selecting alternative minimization methods,
adjusting tray or
screen icon options, or disabling
minimization altogether:
Roll Up - left-click this option to
roll a window up to its title bar. Left-click it again to
unroll a window back to its normal size.
Stay Always-On-Top
- left-click this option to place and keep a window always on top of others.
Left-click it again to let a window be covered by others.
Send to Bottom
- left-click this option to place a window under (or behind) all the others.
Transparency
- displays a submenu that allows you changing window's transparency
to a defined level, select from a range of predefined levels,
or disable the transparency effect altogether:
Alignment
- displays a submenu that allows you the choice from one of 9 predefined methods of window
alignment:
Resize Window
- displays a submenu that allows you either choosing from a range of predefined window sizes or defining a custom size
on-the-fly to resize your window:
Priority
- displays a submenu with the list of available priority values where you can view the current
priority setting and change it as circumstances require:
Ghost
- left-click this option to "ghost" a window.
Left-click it again to restore the window to its normal state.
Note
When window is ghosted you can't call its window menu by clicking on its title bar because ghosted
window will pass all the mouse clicks through. In such case you should either right-click window's
taskbar button to call its window menu or temporarily unghost
it to make its title bar operational again.
Move to monitor
- displays a submenu containing the list of currently connected monitors so you can send a window to
any of them by selecting the appropriate item (the checked item corresponds to a monitor the window
currently resides on):
Move to Virtual Desktop
- displays a submenu with the list of currently available
virtual desktops and the special "All desktops" item:
Selecting any of these items will move a window to item's corresponding virtual
desktop or make it visible on all desktops.
Placement restrictions - this option is
added automatically if you enable the placement restrictions for a window. Use it
to suspend the defined placement restrictions and move/resize your window freely as circumstances require. After
that, you can restore the defined restrictions back, and your window will be placed within the allowed area automatically
and, if needed, reduced to fit within it.
Pin to desktop - this option is
added automatically if you pin a window to desktop. Use it toggle the "pinned/unpinned"
state of window in case you need to handle this window as usual.
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