Adding an active window viewer to sysmaint panel?

So I was tinkering with a few updates and installing some packages the other day, and you do have to be rather careful not to close the window if you’re working in a terminal. Being me I rather stupidly I minimized the terminal window mid package install. Couldn’t for the life of me get it back. Tried opening another terminal, but the update process had locked the thing up entirely. Nearly botched the whole affair, which would have been a rubbish pain.

On GNOME you can just press the Super key and see all your active minimized windows at a glance. Is there anything equivalent on LXQt? The only thing I’ve come across is lxqt-appswitcher, though its Git page looks rather abandoned (maybe a mirror), no activity for over two years, by the looks of it yeah?

Rather odd that the panel doesn’t have some sort of activity overview pinned at the top, really you’d think it would be rather handy to see the lot of them at a glance without having to rummage about. My finicky habit when doing administration tasks is to minimize my windows cause I might be editing a bloody config here but doing an update in another windie.

There is a “taskbar” module for Waybar we could enable. We intentionally don’t provide many desktop-ish features in the sysmaint session to discourage using the sysmaint session for general compute tasks though. Maybe an application switcher wouldn’t be a big deal though.

In the mean time / even if we don’t implement this, you should be able to use Alt+Tab to bring up minimized windows.

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I gave that a go, but no joy I’m afraid.