[openbox] Trouble with keystroke on the list of windows

[u34 at net9.ga]

Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using Openbox for seven years and this is the first time
> I found something less than optimal...
> 
> There's a window list that shows all windows open on all workspaces.
> Normally, I navigate this list with the keyboard: I press a key and
> focus moves to the next window whose title begins with the name I
> typed, and if there's only one, that window opens immediately. Perfect!
> 

Nice. Is this feature documented? Where? Which search string can find it 
easily in the Internet?
Until now, I didn't know the menu has a similar feature for navigation.

--
u34

> Trouble is, sometimes I have so many windows open that at the bottom of
> the window list is an entry called "more", which I can click to open
> another window list for the later workspaces. If the window I seek is
> on the "more" list, and I enter a letter, and only one item on the main
> list starts with that letter, it opens the one window on the main list,
> even though there's a second (desired) window, on the more list.
> 
> In an ideal world, this window list function would take into account
> the "more" list. I know this would be a difficult change, but if a lot
> of people would like to make the keystroke consider all window lists at
> once, and if it's reasonably doable, maybe you can do it.
> 
> Thanks for a spectacular user interface that speeds my daily work
> immensely!
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
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