Hi all, I'm making a keyboarder-friendly ctwm setup, and part of that means that I instantiate applications using dmenu, an external program that quickly lets you run any command on $PATH.
Naturally, I want the newly instantiated application to have full focus, so that I can start typing into it without needing to do anything with the mouse (which would greatly slow my speed). Also, I want to get rid of the feature by which focus comes and goes according to where the mouse is. Naturally, I *DO* want to be able to *click* on a window and have it gain focus. I just want focus to be completely independent of where the mouse moves or hovers. You can think of this as the ctwm you'd like to have if your computer had no mouse. So here's how I did it. in my .ctwmrc: ######## BEGIN STEVE LITT'S KBD ENHANCEMENT SETTINGS ######### ClickToFocus # Prevent mouse movement changing focus RaiseOnClick # Window rises when clicked RaiseOnClickButton 1 # When clicked with button 1, that is. UsePPosition "on" # Help kbd instantiated windows get focus RandomPlacement "on" # Help kbd instantiated windows get focus AutoFocusToTransients # Help kbd instantiated windows get focus SaveWorkspaceFocus # Obviously workspace focus should be retained WindowRing # Enable Alt+Tab type window circulation WarpRingOnScreen # Enable Alt+Tab type window circulation IgnoreCaseInMenuSelection # Make menus much easier via keyboard ######## END STEVE LITT'S KBD ENHANCEMENT SETTINGS ######### Works great. If you're a keyboard type of person, you should try it. And be sure to integrate Suckless Tools' dmenu into your ctwm via an easy hotkey. Big time productivity enhancement. SteveT Steve Litt September 2017 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr
