Originally Posted by
m-elodie
But the most important argument is (1). So can you give me an example where you want
to open a new window but you want it to stay under all your current windows?
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But I fail to understand what can be gained by not showing the window I just opened.
I open about 10 applications when I login. Most of them, I want to be iconified. Some I want specifically located on the screen with specific location and size, iin a specific workspace, AND at a specific Z-level. I certainly don't want them all on top and tiled, though some people might want that. We all work differently. Admittedly, I'm odd. I tend NOT to close programs when I'm done with them for now. May need them again in 5 hrs. Just iconify them and let the OS swap them out as needed. After all, RAM that isn't used is being wasted. In the Gnome 3 and later worlds, iconifying programs seems to be disallowed. Fortunately, we can choose a different GUI and have what we want. Nobody has to use Gnome.
There's no lifetime write count on RAM like there is on SSDs.
Code:
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 30Gi 20Gi 4.6Gi 103Mi 5.3Gi 9.4Gi
Swap: 4.1Gi 1.7Gi 2.4Gi
This shows that the system still has over 9GB of RAM that can be used. I don't have any more applications to start up, however.
We all work differently. That's fine. Anyway, for controlling focus, there are a number of tools to allow that. Since I don't use Gnome, I cannot provide a specific answer, but there are Gnome extensions and Gnome Tweaks to help navigate all the options that aren't easily accessed through the GUI. It never hurts to review the Desktop Guide for the specific DE+release you are running too. https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/ I assumed you already checked that.
I cannot believe you can't customize the settings to provide the behavior from Windows 3.0 you seem to expect, but Gnome often prevents some common sense things. Would you consider any other DE, perhaps one with more flexibility and greater controls than the dumbed down Gnome4 stuff?
Linux isn't MacOS nor is it MS-Windows. Trying to be like those other OSes really isn't a good idea when trying to differentiate your product from the others. If it is like the others, why would anyone bother switching? Remember this from just before Win7 was released? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ID2CbtnKk They loved the new "Windows 7 Beta!" But it was Linux with KDE.
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