Re: The one improvement I'd like on ctwm

2018-10-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:19:06AM +0200 I heard the voice of Rhialto, and lo! it spake thus: > > MAYBE if we can link an event to "letting go of ALT", that could be > bound to a new action that modifies the ring to behave like a stack. > But I haven't looked yet how easy or hard that would be.

Re: The one improvement I'd like on ctwm

2018-10-11 Thread Rhialto
On Mon 08 Oct 2018 at 20:40:55 -0400, Steve Litt 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

Re: The one improvement I'd like on ctwm

2018-10-11 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I wanted to be able to type into the partly covered window > [...] > It would have been intolerable to always have to bring the > text window to the top in order to provide text input. So > in that context, the mouse was used to interact with the > program being tested and demonstrated and

Re: The one improvement I'd like on ctwm

2018-10-10 Thread Aaron Sloman
Thanks for the latest comments. I thought I should clarify this: AS > > Perhaps I don't need this > > because I set focus to follow mouse always? SL > Yes! It sounds to me like your interface usage is primarily mouse, but > with some hotkeys thrown in for extra efficiency. Not really. I like

Re: The one improvement I'd like on ctwm

2018-10-10 Thread Mark Carroll
On 10 Oct 2018, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 20:48:58 +0100 > Aaron Sloman wrote: (snip) >> 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

Re: The one improvement I'd like on ctwm

2018-10-09 Thread Aaron Sloman
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: > I switched away from Openbox, to ctwm, for about 2 months, before > switching back to Openbox. Ctwm was my favourite for many years (from around 1995?) but for a while I switched to Openbox because ctwm wasn't available for some reason, or had