window manipulation like Linux?

[Elliotjnewman]

I was just wondering if there is a way to manipulate windows in a Red Hat Linux way?

What I mean is when you have a screen full of windows, in Linux you can move a window to the background by alt clicking the title bar, and you can bring it to the front by alt clicking anywhere in the window space - it makes light work of a desktop full of windows...

Also a really handy time saver is resizing, which can be done by positioning the mouse over any part of the window space and holding down alt and right mouse drag will resize, to pan the window you just do the same but drag with the left mouse button - it saves you having to find the corner of the window to scale it, or to drag the title bar... it may sound like a small thing, but it can really save you time.

Also, can you do ffm or sffm on OSX?

Many thanks. Elliot.

 

[karavite]

Hi Elliot. I'd be interested in this too. For some time I was running multiple desktops on OS X (there are some 3rd party apps for this), but when Expose came out in 10.3, I found I rarely really needed multiple desktops. Expose solved the same problem, but in a different way.

Any way, I think you make a great point - Linux GUI controls in all the desktop environments offer so many ideas and you pointed out some really interesting ones for managing windows. I don't know of any little apps for OS X right now, but will look around and get back to you.