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I'm too used to the 'one icon per window' paradigm which is why even on windows I do not combine icons. To open a program that has multiple windows on unity, one needs to click the relevant icon, and then select the window you want, which is two mouse clicks (well, one mouse click, mouse move, then click again) as compared to a single mouse click. And I somehow prefer a horizontal longer taskbar as compared to a vertical one even though a horizontal taskbar would rob be of vertical space.



You're using Unity wrong. Super+w will display all open windows to you.


Okay. But as a newbie, I still think I shouldn't need to Win+W then click on the window I need when the previous option was just clicking on the relevant icon in the taskbar directly. This is backward UI (just like the Android Jellybean which takes two taps to select an app to run just once).


It's a happy medium between user friendliness and a UI that gets out of your way like xmonad. You only need two shortcuts to use Unity effectively. Super+w to switch windows and Super+s to switch screens.




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