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

Matthew Fitzgibbons elessar at nienna.org
Thu Jun 7 19:47:43 EDT 2007


Clay Barnes wrote:
> Though their motivation was something I disagree on, Apple came up
> with the best solution I've seen for this scenario with Exposé "show
> all windows." (They base their work on the theory that window
> management in any form is complicated and scary for users, and piles of
> disorganized windows are the only way to "organize"
> applications---even though switching then requires an intellectual
> O(n) search every time.)  Perhaps someone could develop a fast, light
> all-window preview app to use with OB for this scenario (I'm sure the
> OB3 community would balk at adding that much code to the project
> itself.) that could then make the focus-change call in a WM-independent
> way (I know virtually no X libraries, so I may be wrong about the
> feasibility of that).
>   

If anyone is interested, there is a project called Skippy
(http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php) that already does this. I have used
it in the past with, I believe OB 3.2

-Matt



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