[openbox] Per-application window switching

Robbie Smith zoqaeski at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 20:34:14 EDT 2011


A new feature that seems to be turning up in GNOME 3.x and some other 
DEs is the ability to cycle between windows of a specific application, 
by default bound to Alt-` (or whichever key is above Tab). How would I 
go about emulating this in Openbox, and are there plans to implement 
something similar?

I'm not familiar with C so I'm not sure how to implement such a feature, 
but a configuration variable might be something like 
<single>BOOL</single> that could go in the window action, e.g.

	<keybind key="A-grave">
	  <action name="NextWindow">
	    <bar>no</bar>
	    <dialog>yes</dialog>
	    <raise>no</raise>
*	    <single>yes</single>
	  </action>
	</keybind>
	<keybind key="A-S-grave">
	  <action name="PreviousWindow">
	    <bar>no</bar>
	    <dialog>yes</dialog>
	    <raise>no</raise>
*	    <single>yes</single>
	  </action>
	</keybind>

What do people think of this idea?


Robbie


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