On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 20:48:58 +0100 Aaron Sloman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve Litt [email protected] > wrote: > > ..... > > > Contrastingly, ctwm keeps the windows on a given workspace in a ring > > buffer. This requires two different keystrokes: One to navigate > > clockwise, and one to navigate counterclockwise. For whatever > > reason, even after 2 months using specially created hotkeys for > > these circular navigations, I couldn't get my muscle memory to work > > with the 2 key solution. > > I wonder whether it depends on the keys you choose. > > I have > > WarpRingOnScreen > "Left" = m : all : f.warpring "prev" > "Right" = m : all: f.warpring "next" > > This means that Meta + Left arrow goes one way round the windows in > the current workspace and Meta + Right goes the other way. Surely > easy to remember? It would seem so. And I had similar (but better and faster ergonomically) hotkeys for the same functionalities. I thought for sure my fingers would get used to it. But they never did, after a solid month of everyday (everyminute, actually) use. > > I have a similar scheme for cycling through my 12 workspaces, using > Ctrl + Left and Ctrl + Right Same here, both on ctwm and Openbox. With my workflow, switching workspaces is rare enough that the absolute best optimization isn't necessary. Besides, I have Alt+1 through Alt+8 hotkeyed for my eight workspaces. [snip functions for hotkeys] > However if the windows occupy different portions of the screen, with > only partial overlaps, what becomes visible will depend on where the > mouse pointer is. The preceding sentence is an absolute showstopper for me. I can't work in and environment where focus depends on mouse hover. Fortunately, I found ways to set up ctwm so that mouse hover position did not effect focus at all. > > But I may have failed to understand the requirement. > > > As another useful enhancement, most WM/DEs (Window managers and > > Desktop Environment) flash on the screen the name of the program > > that would gain focus if you let go. I have no idea how easy or > > difficult that would be. > > Not sure I understand this. Let go of what? Good point. When I do Alt+Tab, what I actually do is first press Alt with my thumb, then press Tab with my pinky, while keeping my thumb on Alt. With the pinky press, a list of windows on this workspace appears in a decoration-free graphical list. While keeping my thumb on Alt, every time I release and press Tab, the highlight of the window list moves to the next window in the list. When I finally take my thumb off Alt, the list disappears and the window whose correspondent in the list was highlighted now has focus. > Perhaps I don't need this > because I set focus to follow mouse always? Yes! It sounds to me like your interface usage is primarily mouse, but with some hotkeys thrown in for extra efficiency. Contrast this to me: I almost never use the mouse go switch windows or workspaces or run programs or almost anything else. Matter of fact, as a touch-typist about 45wpm, I consider a mouse-reach to be time-inefficient. So you and I need dramatically different user interfaces. Luckily, except for the stacking thing, you could easily make yours behave like mine, and I could make mine behave like yours. SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz
