On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:04:56PM +0200, none wrote: > pancake wrote: > >When i was an icewm user the 'not focus on mouseover' approach make me > >feel conformartable and productive, but, after a year being a dwm and wmii > >user I can say that it makes the mouse more productive, so you don't have > >to make stupid clicks all the time. > > > >My patch uses mouse wheel on client title to focusnext()/focusprev() it's > >far more productive/minimalistic than removing the focus client on mouse > >over and drawing stupid buttons for window managing. > > > I installed dwm from the Archlinux repo, so I can't compile atm, but I > will try your patch. > (Yeah, I will uninstall and compile myself later, I just installed dwm > before the browser) > > Since your patch is not in the small patch list on suckless.org, I > couldn't really know
Oh, yes, I sent a mail with the patch few days ago and nobody reply me, so I understand that there's no people interested with it, so i decided not to put on the wiki. (But i'll, so I got 1 reply! ;D) > about that. Just tell me what is the "client title": The client title on > the dwm bar? I'm Yes, I mean the dwm bar (where the client's title is show) > unsure because once there was also a title bar _on_ the client which I > don't actually > see any more (so much the better). Looks like a pretty good solution! Let me know :) I feel very confortable with it. > I hate the 'focus on mouseover' because when I'm entering text in a > dialog, while > bringing my right hand on the keyboard I move by accident my optical > mouse out of > the dialog client area. (Once I found myself writing my password in #dwm!) > Then I have to move again the mouse over the dialog and retype my pass. Don't worry, I was not there ;) > If I want to change focus and I have hands on keyboard, I use an Alt-Tab / > Alt-Shift-Tab way to change focus between clients and I wouldn't use > "stupid clicks all the time" :) With my patch you can change the focused client by using the mouse wheel on the dwm status bar. > Thx for help, > > Wyrmskull Regards --pancake
