[openbox] Per-application window switching

[Dana Jansens]

We've attempted this a few times over the last few years but there has
been no reliable means to tell which windows really below to which
applications.  I'm curious to know what they are using to do that now.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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