On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:22, Parasol Otwierany <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 :)
I can't really help you with your problem, although I think it can be done. But I really want to know how you work with 9 or 12(!) terms on one screen? I run 1600x1200, and I generally don't go over 4 terms per tag (usually in the fair layout). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
