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OSDir: Screenshot Review: Komposé–Exposé Like, Full Screen Task Manager

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 9, 2004

[ Thanks to Steve
Mallett
for this link. ]

“Komposé is a full screen task manager for KDE that has
just gone to release 0.4.1 in two months. You really have to see it
to understand, but imagine that tiny little box in your taskbar
that indicates all our running windows blown up and on the entire
desktop. Then add a tiny screenshot for each app.

“Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. This kind of task manager is
new to Linux desktop users, but has been a staple of OS X users for
nigh on a year and a half or so. If you have seen exposé in
action on a OS X machine then you have a good idea of what
Komposé is like…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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