Re: [Xmonad] Re: Switching focus without pulling hidden windows into the foreground

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:19:15PM +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote:

David Roundy writes:

Hi David,

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Is it possible to switch focus only between visible windows without pulling hidden ones into the foreground?

It'd be an easy extension to write, but imagine it would be specific to the TwoPane layout, since I don't see how this could be implemented using the actual property of "switch focus between visible" windows.

Currently the TwoPane layout is the only layout that has hidden windows and multiple visible windows, so it wouldn't be a too big problem if it was specific to that layout.

Combo can also have this effect, particularly when combining with TwoPane. And Square behaves the same way.

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Instead it'd be "switch focus between the first two windows".

So xmonad doesn't know what windows are visible and which one are hidden?

It'd have to re-display them, I believe. I don't know, maybe there is a way to find out. If so, it'd require some trickiness. Such trickiness, however, wouldn't work with Combo+TwoPane+Tabbed, since Tabbed hides windows by moving them to the back of the stack (i.e. so they are behind the focussed window), rather than by actually making them not visible. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University