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The Win­dow Picker Applet is an GNOME applet (devel­oped at Canon­i­cal) that dis­plays the list of  run­ning appli­ca­tions and allows you to switch between them. It’s a default applet in Ubuntu-netbook-remix, since on net­books the screen real estate is essential.

It’s a nice lit­tle applet, but unfor­tu­nately does not work well with ver­ti­cal pan­els, since it tries to dis­play the icon list of the run­ning appli­ca­tions hor­i­zon­tally (see this bug). I’ve devel­oped a patch to window-picker-applet-0.4.22 that solves this issue.
To use it, do as follows:

apt-get source  window-picker-applet
cd window-picker-applet-0.4.22
patch -p1 < $PATH_TO_THE_PATCH_FILE

and then the usual:

./configure
cd src && make && sudo make install
killall gnome-panel

Note that this patch *needs* gnome-panel to be restarted, since the panel ori­en­ta­tion is cho­sen at ini­tial­iza­tion (I’ve not imple­mented yet the ori­en­ta­tion change dur­ing execution).

Down­load the patch from here.

The Win­dow Picker Applet is an GNOME applet (devel­oped at Canon­i­cal) that dis­plays the list of  run­ning appli­ca­tions and allows you to switch between them. It’s a default applet in Ubuntu-netbook-remix, since on net­books the screen real estate is essential.

It’s a nice lit­tle applet, but unfor­tu­nately does not work well with ver­ti­cal pan­els, since it tries to dis­play the icon list of the run­ning appli­ca­tions hor­i­zon­tally (see this bug). I’ve devel­oped a patch to window-picker-applet-0.4.22 that solves this issue.
To use it, do as follows:

apt-get source  window-picker-applet
cd window-picker-applet-0.4.22
patch -p1 < $PATH_TO_THE_PATCH_FILE

and then the usual:

./configure
cd src && make && sudo make install
killall gnome-panel

Note that this patch *needs* gnome-panel to be restarted, since the panel ori­en­ta­tion is cho­sen at ini­tial­iza­tion (I’ve not imple­mented yet the ori­en­ta­tion change dur­ing execution).

Down­load the patch from here.