Re: FVWM: focus managing query

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_math.uh.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:46:27 +0100

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:31:43AM +0000, Ray Fung wrote:
> Dominik
>
> thanks again for you 2nd reply. I tried your
> suggestion, but the resulting functionality was not
> what i had wanted:
>
> consider the windows on the current desktop
> [a b c]
>
> where window 'a' currently has focus. using the
>
> > AddToFunc AltTabFunc
> > + I Raise
> > + I Focus
> >
> > Key Tab A M Prev (currentdesk) Function AltTabFunc
> >
>
> hitting alt-tab the 1st time gives me window 'b'
> focus. hitting alt-tab again, gives me window 'c'
> with focus.
>
> so it would appear that the current focused window is
> used a pivot. this is not quite the behaviour i was
> trying to achieve.
>
> Using something like kde/enlightenment, hitting
> alt-tab gives you a choice of which windows i can
> select from and whilst holding down alt and pressing
> tab moves along the list of available windows but
> without giving them focus.

The WindowList command in the current beta releases does exactly
this. You can tell it to sort windows by the order in which they
had focus.

Please send replies always to the mailing list, never directly to
me so that others get a chance to reply too.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Received on Thu Mar 15 2001 - 05:45:59 GMT

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