Roll up/shading windows.
From
Annada Behera@annada@tilde.green to
tilde.meta on Sat Jul 12 11:40:58 2025
Hi ~,
So, one of the features that I have been enjoying since a long time is
the roll-up feature, also known as "shading." You can double-click on
the titlebar of a windows hide everything except the titlebar itself.
For me this works as a minimize button.
The location provides a cognitive context of what window is doing what.
When minimized, the context is lost and when you are hunting for the
specific window (out of all the windows running) and you have to read
the titlebar text in the taskbar to choose. It's even worse when you
workflow consists of billions of terminal and a few browser windows. On Win11/Macos this situation is unimaginable, where in the taskbar, you do
not even have the titlebar text and only have to guess the window just
from icon, which are grouped into one AND the sit through the tooltip
animation and delay.
So, I never minimize any window to the taskbar, I just roll-up the
window in place if I need the screen real estate and never lose context
of my workflow. If you have not discovered the feature yet, give it a
try. The option is generally present in the Windows Manager settings.
Tell me about your opinion on this feature.
Good day.
Annada
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