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XFCE Notes Window Focus

Get the XFCe Notes window active with ALT+TAB

When using XFCE and the Notes goodie, when the notes window is not active, grabbing it can only be done with the mouse. This is a bit annoying, espacially when you are used to work with only the keyboard.
To get the notes window active with a keyboard shortcut, we are goin to configure XFCE Window Manager not to skip the notes window when cycling through the windows with the keyboard.
By default, XFCE Window Manager is configured to skip the notes window when cycling through the windows with the Alt+Tab keyboard shortcut. To change this, we need to go to the Window Manager settings: Settings - Window Manager Tweaks - Cycling - uncheck "Skip windows that have skip pager or skip taskbar properties set"

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