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Comment by silon3 | Hacker News Reader

I like unity in many ways, except for:

    1. app centric alt+tab (100% showstopper, will not use).
    2. menu on top (almost as bad)
    3. hard to start multiple terminal windows

Can't really say more, because of #1.

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1. There are about 3 or 4 different switchers available in ubuntu -- take a look in CCSM and choose the one you want. But first I'd spend more time with the unity switcher. Adding the second dimension makes switching through tons of windows a lot easier. Hint: press the down arrow when you've alt-tabbed to an application to see the windows for that app.

2. Menu on top is awesome on my laptop, but not so much on my 2560x1600 desktop. Just do sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt to replace.

3. middle mouse button on the icon.

#1 Super-tab does the per window version of alt-tab

#2 Why waste any more vertical screen space

#3 Ctrl-Alt-T > New Terminal, then Ctrl-Shift-T new terminal tab (or Ctrl-Alt-T again for new terminal)

1. Personally I click on the launcher more that use alt-tab these days. However there is a new key combo Alt-` as shown here: http://youtu.be/XHFNnygpvcM

2. You could set the Launcher to Autohide

3. Middle mouse on the launcher icon for another window.

For #1, you can use ALT-`. I didn't know about it until I saw it here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...

For #3, you can also use CTRL-ALT-T to start multiple terminals, and then CTRL-ALT-NUMPAD # to tile them around in your workspace. It is not the best workflow, however.

Also, to start a new instance of a window you can middle-click on its icon in the launcher. This works with more than just the terminal (browsers, word processors, etc.).

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