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

[Dana Jansens]

On 6/7/07, Tore Anderson <tore at linpro.no> wrote:
>    I also sometimes want to go to windows I can't see, and I don't know
>   which desktop it is on.  I've developed a habit to start NextWindow-
>   stepping to find it (especially if I've got a hunch it's on the current
>   desktop - I'm not using allDesktops=yes), which often enough ends up
>   being futile.  With a NextWindow-dialog like client-list-combined-menu
>   this will always work, since it's all desktops but sorted by desktop
>   first (which is natural to me), if my hunch was right and the quickest
>   way to get to my target was to just NextWindow-step a few times that's
>   exactly what I'd end up doing, or if my hunch was wrong and that I had
>   to scroll through a menu to get where I wanted the most quickly, that
>   would also be exactly what I'd end up doing.  It would be optimal in
>   both cases, no need to abandon one strategy in favour of another since
>   they'd be the same!  :-)
>
>    I'm really messy.  At the end of the day it's not unlikely that I have
>   an average of 15-20 open windows on each of my 10 desktops.  With
>   multiple monitors and Xinerama I've got lots of space for my mess, too.
>   Sometimes that's rather unfortunate.  :-P  Usually it's all Xterms,
>   save a web browser and a MUA.  So when I'm on a desktop with 20 Xterms
>   and I want to use NextWindow to get where I want (directional focus is
>   out of the question since I can't see it).  With the current list of
>   identical icons I might just end up stepping through every one of them
>   before finding it - should've used PreviousWindow instead, but there's
>   no way to know that until it's too late...

I'm not sure what your window names look like, but I'm assuming
they're not all the same if you're using a list of windows to find it.
 So I just though I'd point out - if you didn't realize it already -
you could pop open the client list menu, and hit the first letter in
the name of the application you want to go to.  You don't have to hit
the arrow keys 100 times.

That expose-like app also looks pretty interesting.