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Exposé-like navigation comes to Linux desktops

Friday, March 03 2006 @ 04:50 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

Komposé, a full-screen window navigator for KDE that acts similar to Mac OS X's Exposé, is now available for free download. Like the OS X tool, Komposé generates thumbnails of open windows and tiles them in groups by current workspace or all workspaces.

The conventional way to navigate among windows in KDE is with the taskbar, or by means of Alt-Tab or Alt-Shift-Tab. But for high-intensity users who might have 10 to 20 windows open at a time, such manual shifting can get tedious. Komposé creates a full-screen view in which every window is represented by a scaled-down screenshot of its own and is easy to access.
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