[openbox] Using Next/PreviousWindow with client-list-combined-menu

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Thu Jun 7 14:46:54 EDT 2007


On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Clay Barnes wrote:

[snippy]

> This brings to mind a longstanding issue I've had---I turn off window
> decorations because they aren't useful for me, but without them, I
> have issues sometimes using directional focus.  Say I just switched to
> a workspace perfectly filled with terminals.  I don't know which is
> focused, but I want to get to one on the west edge of the screen, so I
> start direction focusing west... but nothing happens.  I check my
> finger placement, and when it's fine, I realize that a window on the
> west edge is already focused.  Now I have to do a direction focus to
> the east to get the highlighting box to show up, then focus back west
> before I can start traveling up or down the edge to the application I
> wanted (assuming I hadn't just wasted my time because my desired
> application was already focused).
>
> That was a very long-winded way of asking for the option to highlight
> the currently focused app, even if my direction-focus command hasn't
> changed which one it is.

I'm pretty sure this was fixed in 3.4, since I fixed it.
Hm, it seems dirfocus with dialog=no is quite broken though, you might 
want to turn on dialogs in the mean time.

--
Mikael Magnusson



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