On 06/07/2009 12:21 AM, Scot Becker wrote: > These mappings look interesting. Could you write in a few words of > English what they do, for those of us whose awsome-lua is still > undernourished?
Well, they can focus clients by direction, not by some index in a list. So, basically, when you have this layout: --------- | | B | | |---| | A | C | | |---| | | D | --------- and client C is focused. To go to client A you can just say "go to the client to the left" (h for all those used to vim-keys). Having just default j/k available, you'd have to press kk twice. But the problem is not the amount of key presses, but that it's MUCH more intuitive to work in 4 directions with wmii-like keys than just 2 directions with awesome-like keys. NOTE: Unfortunately the awful.client.focus.bydirection methods are not really as good as the wmii ones. Because wmii remembers the "current" window of each column. So in the above example, after focusing client A, you can go back to client C with "l" (for go right). With the mappings I posted you'd select client "B" which is probably not what you wanted. As often you use these keys to cycle between 2 or 3 windows. Hope that helps a little and promotes the usage of those mappings for other awesome users :) Martin -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
