Most annoying post-Gates/Ballmer screwup: Can't arrange windows

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:14:32 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:56:45 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:34:59 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:10:07 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:17:09 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

I'm not sure what you're trying to explain, but I run 90+% of my
applications full screen. It's a heck of a lot easier to switch back and
forth that way than to try to find the right window and bring it
forward. The only exceptions to the full screen rule that I can think of
off hand are Agent and Putty.



Interesting. I'm the exact opposite. I run 0% of my
applications full screen.

I have two 24" monitors, and on each screen I always have three
applications running, each covering about 80% of the full screen. The
upper left-hand corners of them all stick out behind the others and
it's very easy to click a corner and have it come forward.

Then you're doing something that I haven't figured out. g
When I arrange 3 windows that way, clicking on the second or third
window indeed brings that window to the front, but now the window that
was on top is hidden behind the window that is now on top. How do you
bring a window to the front and have it automatically move so that it
doesn't block the parts of the other windows that you want to use to
bring them forward?



It doesn't move, automatically or any other way. It's how the three
are arranged. Their upper left hand corners look like this

____
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_|___
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_|_____
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Got it, thanks very much. I won't be changing the way I use Windows, but
it's nice to see how others do it. I'm also thinking that if your
windows cover 80% of the screen and mine cover 100%, we aren't that far
apart.


You're welcome. I'm not trying to convince you to change, but finding
the program I want out of the three little corners is for me a lot
easier than finding the one I want on a row of 27 icons.

By the way, my wife also runs everything on her computer full screen,
but she runs a lot fewer programs than I do, and has a lot fewer icons
on her task bar.



On a related note, I always set the Task Bar to Never Combine taskbar
icons. That gives me a view of each application and access to any of
them with a single click.


Same for me. And I have the task bar on the lefthand side of the
screen, rather than the bottom. That provides room for many more icons

I've tried left side, right side, and even top, but I always come back
to bottom.



We're all different.