On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:25:32PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > On 12/3/06, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi nsz, > > > >I looked into your patch and out of curiosity, how does your > >focus model work, if you use next instead of snext? > > > >To me the client stack was the major improvement that one gets > >focus predictability. > > it's pretty usable imho. > when i use Mod4-Tab to focus next window, it simply circulates through > the viewed windows (in the same order as they are managed) so it's > predictable. > i usually only have 1-3 windows with a given tag (so at most 2 > Mod4-Tab is enough to get to the desired window). > i mostly work in the master window so when i change tag then i want > the focus to be on the master window. > (i removed multiple view support so it's a bit different from regular dwm > usage) > > with multiple windows it's not the best solution, but then i probably > still won't use a stack but a direct window adressing method (like > ALT+Fn on the linux console) inside a view, or simply use the mouse to > change focus. > or use programs such that there is no need for many windows (eg: > screen in a terminal, irc client (one window but many chat channels), > w3m/firefox (multitab browsers), mc (file browser + shell) ...) > > clients with multiple tags can cause annoyances: > when the client is master with one tag but not with another then the > master focusing rule doesn't hold changing to the later tag (but it's > the same with stacking). > if i move the client to the master area viewing a tag then it moves > there on the other tags as well (since client order is changed), but > this has nothing to do with the client stack.
The client stack in dwm is only used when the view changes (viewing a different/more tags, a new client appears, a client is destroyed). It has no effect on the classic navigation (next/prev) however. You seem to prefer a focus policy we had in earlier versions before this stack stuff. In tiled mode one can live without it easily, but when using apps with popup dialogs a missing client stack is often annoying in my eyes. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
