[openbox] Client list wish

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 16:16:15 EDT 2015


On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
> On 2015-07-02 19:38 +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>
> Ian> I wish the client list menu started with the currently focussed
> Ian> window selected, and not always the first window in the list, as it
> Ian> does now.
>
> Ian> What are the chances of getting such a feature into openbox, by any
> Ian> means necessary? ;-)
>
> Mikael> Your question is a bit confusing since the client list menu is
> Mikael> sorted by most recently used order, meaning the currently
> Mikael> focused window is always at the top, and should be the one
> Mikael> selected when you open it. Do I misunderstand something you
> Mikael> asked?
>
> I meant the "combined client list" menu which of course must be sorted
> first by desktop to make any sense.  IOW, the situation I face is: I am
> on some random desktop, say desktop 3, I open the combined menu, and the
> item pre-selected is the top window on desktop 1.
>
> If there is a way to get the client list _just for current desktop_
> directly, without having to select a submenu first, that would answer my
> wish too, but I don't know of a way.

This patch puts the current desktop at the top of the combined menu.
http://git.openbox.org/?p=mikachu/openbox.git;a=patch;h=5e3c9ec8ab5a547ed15e4cf7d1922f372808fc82

I don't think there's a convenient way to get just the current desktop
list, perhaps we should add one.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


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