On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:24:21PM -0800, Aaron Grattafiori wrote: > David Morris wrote: >> I'm trying to setup some key bindings to move to: >> >> 1) switch to the previous selected view >> 2) switch to the previous selected window in the current >> view only >> 3) switch to the previous selected window in any view >> >> I think I've finally figured out how to accomplish all of >> this by creating a daemon which monitors 'wmiir read >> /events'...but it sounds a bit cumbersome. Is there >> built-in functionality that can do this? >> >> --David >> >> > David, > > I added something to my wmiirc for this but...it broke when moving to 3.6. > > I'm not sure if your a fan of python but.. I've been using wmii for just > over a year now with the standard wmiirc bash interface. > I recently switched to using python-wmii. > http://downgra.de/articles/python-wmii/ > > Among other improvements, It maintains a history of views that you can > cycle through with MODKEY-minus and MODKEY-plus. > This is slightly more bloaty (because its using python) but I find > extending and modifying my interaction with wmii MUCH easier and > enjoyable.
I'll have to look into that...Python was already the tool I'd use for the features. > I recommend python-wmii to any wmii user with a small > amount of python experience. Much thanks to Rico Schiekel > for his work. I do my own personal development work exclusively in python. So, I suppose you could say I have at least a small amount of python experience. ;) I've even considered writing my own window manager in Python (did I mention I can sympathize VERY well with Kris' statement of "insane and idealistic"? ;). I just keep getting distracted from the task every time I try and sit down to figure out the XLib library. --David
