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Subject: [openbox] directional window-switching
From: mangosoft () comhem ! se (Mikael Magnusson)
Date: 2007-06-03 23:13:15
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0706040111250.10519 () localhost
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, David Thiel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One feature that I would love to have in Openbox would be the
> ability to switch focus to windows based on position, rather than just
> next or previous. For example, the action names:
>
> WindowRight
> WindowLeft
> WindowUp
> WindowDown
>
> could be used to move to the window to the right of the current one, etc.
> I use this type of navigation in wmii constantly, and it's far more
> convenient when faced with a grid of 9 or so xterms to hop around
> directionally than to cycle through them all. Would this be doable?
It is not only doable, it is done!
http://icculus.org/openbox/3/docs.php?page=details.html#actions
scroll down a bit and look at the top of the table titled
"Global Actions".
--
Mikael Magnusson
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