I'd like a window list option, maybe a middle mouse button click.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 6:58 PM Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net>
wrote:
>
>
> > On Jun 14, 2018, at 18:10, Matthew R. Trower <d...@blackshard.net> wrote:
> >
> > However, even though I said that... neither alt-esc nor alt-tab are
> currently working for me (though the underlying functionality works when
> accessed from a menu, and other keybinds work fine as well). They have
> worked in the past. This could be a result of my private tree, or of
> something that's changed in master at some point. I haven't been able to
> bisect yet.
> >
> > If it is broken for Antonis, or anyone else, I'd very much like to know.
> > Original Message
> > From: Jon Trulson
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 15:24
> > To: cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] question about windows list
> >
> > Oh, good point. I didn't read the last sentence. ALT-TAB should work...
> > -jon
> >
> > On 06/14/2018 01:34 PM, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
> >> This functionality should be bound to either alt+tab or alt+esc by
> default. Do they not work for you?
> >>
> >> Have a look through programs/dtwm/WmResource.c sometime for other
> interesting keybinds.
> >> Original Message
> >> From: Antonis Tsolomitis
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 05:31
> >> To: cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: [cdesktopenv-devel] question about windows list
> >>
> >>
> >> Many times I find myself in a difficult situation where many windows are
> >> open
> >> covering each other and have trouble bringing forward the one I want.
> >>
> >> CDE does not seem to have a utility for finding the window you want. Or
> >> does it?
> >>
> >> Is there any standalone maybe application for such a task ? Or any other
> >> solution?
> >> For example on more common desktops alt+tab rotates the windows and you
> >> can choose.
>
>
> Using grep on my dtwmrc file (Sun CDE, on Solaris 9, in this case), I find
> Alt<Key>Tab root|icon|window f.next_key
> Alt Shift<Key>Tab root|icon|window f.prev_key
> Alt<Key>Escape root|icon|window f.next_key
> Alt Shift<Key>Escape root|icon|window f.prev_key
> Alt<Key>F6 window f.next_key
> transient
> Alt Shift<Key>F6 window f.prev_key
> transient
> Alt<Key>Tab root|icon|window f.next_key
> Alt Shift<Key>Tab root|icon|window f.prev_key
> Alt<Key>Escape root|icon|window f.next_key
> Alt Shift<Key>Escape root|icon|window f.prev_key
> Alt<Key>F6 window f.next_key
> transient
>
> In other words, it's ultimately variations on f.next_key and f.prev_key
> dtwm commands that do the job, and the keys used can be defined as one
> wishes (subject to possible complications with some keyboards and X
> servers as to what constitutes Alt, etc).
>
> A dtwmrc(4) man page (at least in Sun CDE) describes the various f. window
> manager command. While normally they can only appear in a window manager
> configuration file (save that dtstyle sends a command to the window manager
> to restart it, when needed), there is a protocol for sending f. commands to
> dtwm, and I have a C program that uses my reverse engineering of it (via
> xscope, I think) that I wrote a long time ago. Given the source of one of
> the shared libraries whose interfaces are not documented, it may be
> possible to rewrite the program to do it that way...but it does work,
> regardless. Source for my program is at
> http://www.smart.net/~rlhamil/goodies/dtwmcmd.c
>
> So one could step through windows, or workspaces even (there was once
> someone that wanted to do that, I gather for a system with various status
> displays in separate workstations, using a large display or projector)
> programatically.
>
> My notes indicate at least two f. commands not documented in dtwmrc(4):
> f.change_backdrop appears to require pathname of pixmap file as
> an argument
>
> f.set_context appears to require one numeric argument,
> probably a window number (as shown by xlswins
> or xwininfo -tree -root) WARNING: has been
> observed to crash dtwm when given without
> valid argument
>
>
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