Unity Window Quicklists

March 19, 2012 · General · Email This Post

The Unity desktop that the recent releases of Ubuntu uses is kind of nice overall, but there are some specific things that are really hard to do, one of which is finding and focussing on one window of a particular type of application when you may have many other windows of that application you are not interested in. For example, a lot of the time I have three browser windows, a few gedit editors and around ten terminal windows open. When I am doing something I am normally interested in one browser window, one editor and one terminal. If I want to move from the browser to the terminal I am interested in I don’t want the other 9 terminals popping up over the browser, I only want the one that relates to that browser(From author).

What kind of makes sense to me is that you should be able to right click on the things in the launcher and see the list of windows and choose the one you want. Luckily Unity is quite extensible, there are APIs for adding quicklists to the launcher icons and there is enough information kicking about in dbus to find the window names and get callbacks to happen when things get updated like a window title changes or a window gets added or removed.

Install window quicklists in ubuntu 12.04

open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:alanbell/unity
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-window-quicklists

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5 Comments to “Unity Window Quicklists”

  1. Gilbert Dion says:
    March 19, 2012 at 3:14 am

    Problem:

    W: Impossible de récupérer http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

    W: Impossible de récupérer http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

    W: Impossible de récupérer http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

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    admin Reply:
    March 19th, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    All,

    This ppa works only for ubuntu 12.04

    Regards

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  2. Shankar says:
    March 19, 2012 at 8:49 am

    Its not working form me. I am using Ubuntu 11.10

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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  3. Sergey Krauchenia says:
    March 19, 2012 at 10:53 am

    Same here:

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanbell/unity/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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  4. MrMond says:
    March 22, 2012 at 7:33 am

    It really should be made clear in the article that this is just for 12.04.
    You said “recent releases”,suggesting at least the current release should be supported by your instructions. The newest release IS 11.10 as 12.04 is in beta and NOT released yet.
    No wonder you’re getting comments from people having problems.

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