On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Amy de Buitléir
(Assuming Alt-Tab is your key combo for switching focus between windows:)
Alt-Tab is my key combo for *cycling* through windows. I'm still in the habit of clicking with the mouse to give the window the focus, but there's a key combo for it that you can use instead.
That's what I do too, which is exactly what I so clumsily tried to explain. That leaves one of the windows you want in the master area, and the other in the non-master area (slave?). Can you then switch back to the master area *without the window in the non-master area changing*?
I think I explained it badly. The way I do it, you don't need to switch *back* to the master window because you're already there.
1. Click (or whatever you do to set focus) on master window. 2. Alt-tab (or whatever you do to cycle) as many times as needed to get the window you want in the non-master area.
Now you can click (swap focus) between the master and non-master windows, and they will stay the same.
AFAICS your instructions are *exactly* what I wrote, i.e. place one window in master area, cycle/switch focus until the other window is in non-master area (focus is in window in non-master area). As soon as I switch focus to the window in the master area (by using the mouse) then the window in the non-master area changes. Say that (t1)|t2 means focus is on t1, t1 is in master area, and t2 is in non-master area. This is the behaviour I see: 1, Start state: (t1)|t2 2. Cycle through windows: t1|(t2) 3. Cycle again to get the two desired windows on the screen: t1|(t3) After this I can't get to the state (t1)|t3! My only option seems to perform at least 2 steps to end up with t3|(t1). I'd like to have a single step where I can go back and forth between (t1)|t3 and t1|(t3).
Tonight when I'm on my normal computer, I'll try to do it entirely mouse-free so I can write better instructions.
I hope I am misunderstanding you, and that your instructions will reduce my number of key strokes for this use case :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe