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Thumbnails of windows gets old and do not represent the window anymore after a certain time...

Implementing a system to update these thumbnails would be cool.

But regenerating all thumbnails at the same time takes time.

See the repository: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~ThibaultRaffaillac/Animation

I tried Mirage finally and it is a big improvement. However, I was hoping to get it to work like Windows Alt-Tab (aka Flip) function which apparently is also in KDE, MacOS, iOS and Gnome.

First, I couldn't figure out how quickly to "go back to the last window I was in." The list of windows is absolute (rather than z-order), which seems to be part of the problem. Aha - I found the "World order" windows management setting.

As a use-case, I want to toggle between a Browser window and a Playground, because I'm copying/pasting bits of code. In Windows, you just hit "Alt-Tab-Tab (then release Alt)" and you can switch very quickly back and forth between two Windows. It's done with one hand.

In Mirage, there are many more keystrokes, and it also takes two hands:

1. Ctrl-Tab (left hand, then you let go of Ctrl).
2. Move (right hand) to arrow keys
3. Press arrow keys until you find the window you want.
4. Once you've highlighted the window, press return to select it.

So, I think it's basically asking for 1 thing to make it super ergonomic:

1. Ctrl-Tab (or the key you configure) enters the switching mode, whereas releasing Ctrl exits it (maybe not possible in Pharo?). Successive Tab (or shift-Tab) without releasing Ctrl moves forward (or back) in the windows list.

Trying to open the Pharo settings for Mirage results in a walkback: Instance of SmallInteger did not understand #asNanoSeconds

I can't see what the obvious fix is here.

To install in Pharo 7, use:

Metacello new
    repository: 'github://JulienDelplanque/Mirage:v2.1.0/src';
    baseline: 'Mirage';
    load

The tag is "v2.1.0", not "2.1.0".

I keep getting freezes (as in lockups) in my Pharo7 image - and I just noticed that my process browser has 18 delaySemaphore wait operations... that can't be good can it?

I noticed that Pharo7 reports this method has an undeclared error

topWindowIn: aWorldMorph
^ (self windowsIn: aWorldMorph)
detect: #isTopWindow
ifNone: [ ENoTopWindow signal ]

Lots of people are reporting a font glitch issue in Pharo - and it really is noticable in P7 where suddenly characters will be garbled on the screen. This seems to magnify when using Mirage - where I seem to get it every few minutes when Mirage is loaded in a small image (I am loading into OSX 64bit, 7.0.2) - then I load the dev version and then finally my Exercism project (also quite small - but it does drag in Mocketry).

As Mirage, does have an option to refresh thumbnails every x seconds - I wonder if this might exacperate this problem somehow?

I mention this in case it rings any bells.

The workaround is to save your image (or tick/untick trutype fonts in settings) - and this use to be a one off without Mirage loaded, but I find I have to save every 10-20 mins to cure it. (this is empirical, and needs more exploration)

The default shortcut (shift-tab) doesn't trigger Mirage. Instead, tab characters get handled by whatever widget has the focus.

It appears when a collapsed window's thumbnail is updated.

To fix it, just check if the window is collapsed before updating the thumbnail.
If so, don't update the thumbnail (if it is collapsed, the thumbnail of the window didn't changed).

Hi @juliendelplanque,

I got an error opening the settings after loading Mirage on latest Pharo 7 rc1

In Pharo 7, you can't seem to change the open shortcut from Shift-Tab to anything else. If you type something in, and then try to save it it just adds meta-s as an additional shortcut.

A rectangle that do not match with the position of the window appears on the screen.