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Window Menu

Available in: Actual Window Manager, Actual Window Menu, Actual Transparent Window, Actual Window Minimizer, Actual Window Rollup.

The Window Menu feature allows you to supplement Windows®' standard window menu with easy, right-click context menu access to most of the enhanced window actions available in Actual Tools programs.

New Window Menu Items

These new context menu options include:

  • AltMin - displays a sub-menu for selecting alternative minimization methods, adjusting tray or screen icon options, or disabling minimization altogether:

    Window Menu AltMin sub-menu

  • Roll Up - left-click this option to roll up the window. Left-click it again to unroll the window.
  • Stay Always-On-Top - left-click this option to place and keep the window on top of the others. Left-click it again to let the window be covered by the others.
  • Send to Bottom - left-click this option to place the window under all the others.
  • Transparency - displays a sub-menu that allows you to change the transparency to a defined level, select from a range of predefined levels, or disable the transparency effect altogether:

    Window Menu Transparency sub-menu

  • Alignment - displays a sub-menu that allows you to choose from one of nine predefined methods of window alignment:

    Window Menu Alignment sub-menu

  • Resize Window - displays a sub-menu that allows you to either choose from a range of predefined window sizes or define custom sizes "on the fly" to resize your window:

    Window Menu Resize Window sub-menu

  • Priority - displays a sub-menu where you can access the current priority setting and change it as circumstances require:

    Window Menu Priority sub-menu

  • Ghost - left-click this option to "ghost" the window. Left-click it again to restore the window to its normal state.
  • Move to - displays a sub-menu containing the list of currently connected monitors so you can send a window to any of them by selecting the appropriate item (the checked item corresponds to a monitor the window currently resides at):

    Move to Monitor Context Menu

  • Placement restrictions - this option is added automatically if you enable the placement restrictions for a window. Use it to suspend the defined placement restrictions and move/resize your window freely as circumstances require. After that you can enable the defined restrictions back, and your window will be placed within the allowed area automatically and, if needed, reduced to fit within it.
  • Pin to desktop - this option is added automatically if you pin a window to desktop. Use it toggle the "pinned/unpinned" state of window in case you need to handle this window as usual.

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 Last modified: April 13, 2007.