How to group windows?

Hi,

I made the switch from Windows to Linux about three weeks ago - after hours of tweeking, rebooting, friggling and customizing, I'm very satisfied I did. But:

I miss one Win7-feature: Windows 7 groups all open windows of one kind together in
one task bar icon (i.e. all open Firefox-windows). Is there some way to get gnome panel to do the same (or similar)?

Jörg

EDIT: Sorry, I googled it quite some time and found no solution, but there is another thread here in this message board which covers my question: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424119

Besides AWN there is also Docky, Cairo Dock, etc. And my favourite which integrates with the Gnome Panel: DockBarX. You can simply google each...

Thanks ;) I will experiment with the different options.

I have also found that if you press on the very left side of the panel - left of the menu-button - a menu pops up that allows for choosing the way windows are grouped.

If you right-click the little vertical "grip" bar to the left of the window list and
click "Preferences" in there, you can set the plain old Gnome panel to always group windows.

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Cairo-Dock can group windows togather, and even draw them stacked like on the win7 taskbar.