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Topic: «
Actual Window Manager 5.4 beta 2 is available!
, Virtual Desktops Switcher, Window Thumbnails, Multi-monitor Wallpaper » on forum:
Beta Testing
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Alexey Fadeyev
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Posted:
06/08/2009 12:30:47
Hello, everyone!
Hope you liked the features of our last beta so that I may presume you will like the features of the newly released
Actual Window Manager
5.4 beta 2
as well!
This beta further develops the usability of already implemented tools. First, we have added the special
Virtual Desktops Switcher
window. It's similar to regular Taskbar but for virtual desktops. Virtual Desktops Switcher contains as many toolbars as virtual desktops you have (one toolbar per desktop). Each toolbar displays the icons of applications running on its corresponding virtual desktop - so that you can quickly overview, which desktop the certain application is on. With the Switcher window you can:
click any application's icon to activate the application window (and its host virtual desktop as well);
click somewhere on the empty space in the toolbar to activate virtual desktop itself;
drag any application's icon from one toolbar to any of others, which means moving that application's windows from one virtual desktop to another.
You can toggle the Switcher window either via
Code
Alt+`
hotkey (
Alt
key with
back single quote
key) or via
Show/Hide Switcher
command
in
Actual Window Manager
tray icon's context menu.
The other interesting usability improvement is the long-awaited
Window Thumbnails
feature.
Window thumbnail
is a reduced window snapshot - looking at it you can quickly overview window contents on the whole and tell windows apart easier without the need to activate them. Once enabled (see the
Window Thumbnails
item in the
Options
window), this feature creates a preview image for each running window (either visible or hidden) and then displays it along with the tool tip in the following places:
over Taskbar buttons;
over
AltMin screen icons
;
over above-mentioned Virtual Desktops Switcher buttons.
Note.
Unfortunately, for now there are some known issues of this feature:
it works only on
Windows XP
or later
it slightly increases the consumption of system memory by
Actual Window Manager
Control Center;
sometimes it may produce visual glitches on some windows.
Also, after some research we decided to implement the ability to immediately set
Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper
and
Multi-monitor Screen Saver
, without the need to create certain desktop profile and activate it. This update has forced us to change the Configuration window layout once more: the
Desktop Profiles
tab has been replaced with the
Multiple Monitors
tab and now all options related to multiple monitors are grouped there. On this tab you can adjust the Multi-monitor Taskbar options (formerly the
Multiple Monitors
item in the
Options
window), immediately set the Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper picture/Multi-monitor Screen Saver and manage the Desktop Profiles. We believe the new layout should make some tasks easier to accomplish and looks more logical at all.
Note.
Please
provide us some feedback
on the new icons we created for the multi-monitor option sets. Are they clear enough and good recognizable?
As usual, there are some minor bug fixes and improvements:
the Multi-monitor Task Switcher extension
is compatible
with the
TaskSwitch XP PowerToy
utility;
the Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher windows don't disappear in
Windows 7
when the Aero Peek mode is activated;
console windows can be moved/resized when the Aero Snap emulation is active;
title buttons have stopped responding to mouse clicks in full screen applications (like games);
the compatibility with
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
is fixed.
Finally, let me remind you the basic principles of our beta-testing policy:
beta versions have an expiration date
after which they can't be used.
The beta 2 of
Actual Window Manager 5.4
will expire on
August 1, 2009
.
beta versions can't be registered
, even with a valid registration data (they are not final products but betas!). So when the beta version expires you should either roll back to the last stable release, update your beta to a new one (if available), or upgrade to a new stable release (if available).
I strongly recommend to install this beta into a separate folder (for example,
"C:\Program Files\Actual Window Manager 5.4 beta 2"
) so you could easily roll back to any previous version.
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