For the
uninitiated, Mac OS X has a cool feature called Exposé whereby a particularly keyboard shortcut makes all of
your windows arrange themselves into small versions of themselves displayed all at once for easy task-switching. In the
past we've covered a couple
of Exposé clones for Windows, but neither was free. SmallWindows is another Exposé clone, but this one is free and,
even better, open source. It works pretty well, too. You activate SmallWindows by pressing Win-F12 or holding the mouse
at the top-center of the screen. It pops up quickly and smoothly, and rolling the mouse over any of the "mini"
windows shown will zoom in on it a bit. It's not seamless, nor does it have much in the way of frills, but it works as
advertised and is fast and fun to use. It could use a snappier name, though.SmallWindows: Open source Exposé clone for Windows
For the
uninitiated, Mac OS X has a cool feature called Exposé whereby a particularly keyboard shortcut makes all of
your windows arrange themselves into small versions of themselves displayed all at once for easy task-switching. In the
past we've covered a couple
of Exposé clones for Windows, but neither was free. SmallWindows is another Exposé clone, but this one is free and,
even better, open source. It works pretty well, too. You activate SmallWindows by pressing Win-F12 or holding the mouse
at the top-center of the screen. It pops up quickly and smoothly, and rolling the mouse over any of the "mini"
windows shown will zoom in on it a bit. It's not seamless, nor does it have much in the way of frills, but it works as
advertised and is fast and fun to use. It could use a snappier name, though.Related Headlines
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2-01-2006 @ 3:13PM
Tom said...
Wow, I'm suprised how well it works, sure I've only been using it for a couple minutes, and I've already come across a few bugs, but I'm impressed.
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2-01-2006 @ 5:53PM
Dan said...
I have just tried to use it and all it did was turn my screen grey with a few black blotches....?
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2-02-2006 @ 4:00AM
Christian said...
Cool.
Unfortunately, it does not not work in my two-screen mode
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11-09-2006 @ 4:16PM
Jens Egeblad said...
I have stopped working on Smallwindows but check out http://www.mexircus.com
Here you will find the Admiral which contains many of the features of SmallWindows + a lot more!!!
- Jens Egeblad (Author of SmallWindows)
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