> One possible issue associated with this suggestion is that this
> increases further the number of open windows in gretl. The need to
> constantly move across quite independent windows is something that
> sometimes I find really annoying. I appreciate the reasons behind this
> strategy and I am not suggesting to switch to a completely different
> setting. A possible escape and, according to me, a way to have the best
> of both worlds is giving users the possibility to join/divide the
> frames. I am thinking about something similar to what you can do in
> Blender:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Interface/Window_system/Arranging_frames
> If you introduce also the possibility to save a given arrangement, this
> will give the possibility to easily customize the workspace in a very
> flexible way, without harming users with small screens. This way a user
> can also easily recreate any frame arrangement he/she is more familiar
> with (rstudio, stata, matlab,eviews...). (Any small change that reduces
> switching costs should be welcome if we want to increase the number of
> users.)

This has been discussed many times. I personally don't want the gretl GUI
to become a window manager, and I think Allin feels the same way too. By
the way, have you tried Alt-PgUp/Alt-PgDn?