[openbox] Directional switching

Tore Anderson tore at fud.no
Sun Jul 12 03:31:41 EDT 2015


* Ian Zimmerman

> I looked at the code ie. focus_find_directional in
> openbox/focus_cycle.c and I cannot say I understand it.  Is there a
> paper I can read with a rationale?  Or can the author(s) of the code
> explain?

For what it's worth, I just ported the algorithm from FVWM2. I was only
scratching my own itch, as I wanted to start using Openbox but couldn't
live without the directional focus and edge growing/moving actions I'd
grown so used to. I only ever used the N/E/S/W ones, FWIW.

Tore


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