Hello everyone. I've been a long time user of tiling window managers. I've started with Ion somewhere near 2002. I was a happy user for a few years.
Two years ago I started looking for something new, something better. I have been using Xmonad, Wmii and DWM. Finally I came across this awesome Awesome Window Manager and I'm using it almost from it's first release :) But there is still one thing in awesome that I would like to see. It would finally let me stop using mouse as often as I do now. During my normal day at work I have +50 urxvt terminals and some other X windows opened. On one tag (screen) I normally have 9 or sometimes 12 urxvt terminals. Switching between them is horror! The default configuration from awesome let me use "next window" and "previous window" keybindings. Unfortunately sometimes I have to use a keybinding 11 times to switch to my desired window. Sometimes I use my mouse for it but I really hate it. What I desire the most is a behaviour that KDE/Gnome/Xfce/Blackbox/Openbox and other popular window manager have (also present in MS Windows/OSX products). It's "history" based ALT+TAB switching, at least I call it this way. The desired behaviour is like this: We have a 3x3 grid of xterms with the topleft window active: xoo ooo ooo I hold ALT and press TAB four times to get to the middle window: ooo oxo ooo Now, if I want to get back to the topleft window I just have to press ALT+TAB once! If I want to get back to the middle one again I just press ALT+TAB again (only once). But in Awesome situtaion looks like this: xoo ooo ooo I press ALT+TAB four times to get to the middle window: ooo oxo ooo Now, if I want to get back to the topleft window I have to press ALT+TAB five times. If I want to get back to the middle one again I have to press ALT+TAB four times :( I would LOVE to see this in Awesome, is that possible? Again, I really like Awesome and I think it's the first WM worth using after Ion3 :) Cheers, B.
