Re: [wmii] Select window by name?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Anselm R. Garbe wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:57:10AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: I would like to be presented with a list of window names, so that I can choose one with completion in the manner of the "actions" and "prorgams" "menus" that wmii provides in the default config. I consider this as unsupported in wmii-3.1, even if there might be some hackish way to achieve this (e.g. fetching the client names from /client namespace, remembering the client id and the tag of each client, selecting the specific tag and client after selection). I think there is something I do not understand here.  Isn't wmiir supported?  Isn't every documented command line switch of wmiir supported? Isn't it possible to achieve what I want by using documented invocations of wmiir? So in what way is this unsupported? I do agree, however, that the "filesystem" exported by wmii does not make it convenient to extract the information needed for this functionality.  However, this does not make the functionality undesirable! wmii should then switch to the (or a) view showing the window in question, then focus it. See above. It might be possible, but I won't bother to think too much about it. Wait for wmii-4, which might provide a more elegant way doing so. I merely asked if someone has already done this, to avoid reinventing the wheel.  It is clear from your message that you haven't done this. But perhaps someone else has? Perhaps it would be useful to have another action that, if the window is shown in more than one view, cycles to the next view and focuses the window there. I think that is no good idea. Why not? Another possibility would be the following: First, ask the user for a window name.  If the window is shown in only one view, select that and focus the window there.  If there is more than one view, pop up a menu of views and have the user select amongst them. Would you consider that better?  Why? Kai

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