Preview for XFCE Panel Window Buttons?

In Windows 7 taskbar, theres a useful feature where mouse over taskbar icons (window buttons) will show a preview of the window, is there something like that for XFCE?  Its veryuseful especially when I have many PDF open and all icons look like a black piece of paper ...

jiewmeng wrote:
In Windows 7 taskbar, theres a useful feature where mouse over taskbar icons (window buttons) will show a preview of the window, is there something like that for XFCE?  Its veryuseful especially when I have many PDF open and all icons look like a black piece of paper ...
http://i.imgur.com/FU9Ns.png
If you use compiz fusion as your window manager, then yes. It has a realtime preview function (and has had for years prior to win7). xfwm doesn't.

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