Saturday, July 7, 2007

Productive with Compiz Fusion Expo and Scale

I set F8 to activate Expo and F9 to activate Scale

Expo
In my opinion Expo is more convenient compared to Scale, since the application's window position is never changed. For example, if we put Thunderbird in viewport 3 (top right corner) then we can always switch to Thunderbird by going to the top right corner.



Expo always divide the screen into equally sized viewport regardless of number of running applications, this could make Expo less desirable to for a small number of running application.

Scale
Scale is very similar with Mac's Expose. One benefit of Scale is that it divide the computer screen equally for every running application. If we have only 2 applications running then we will see the two application equally at the same size on the screen, this make scale better than expo.


The downside is that application position is always changed. If we have many applications, then activating Scale requires us to search where the application is on the cluttered screen.

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