How can you know that this is a common idiom? Is there an (prob. GNU)-document for these things?
Two reasons I am asking:
1) I feel terrible reading this, since my last post was preaching for XCFE for this exact functionality.
2) It would be awesome to have these things bundled and discover many things which are yet not discovered by me.
The major Linux desktops have had this sort of thing for like 15 years. It’s usually only discovered by people who obsessively tweak their settings, though.
