Re: Three focus concepts

Rhialto <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:46:20 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
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On Sat 18 Nov 2017 at 22:21:05 +0000, Aaron Sloman wrote:
> Would it help to modify the iconmanager so that in addition to showing
> which windows are open and which shut it also shows which one has the
> focus, e.g. using a colour change, selectable by user, as happens in the
> workspace manager when I move around workspaces? (Using CTRL+L or CTRL+R)

At the risk of telling you something you already know (but want
differently), it already does that. The focused window has a thicker
black border than the unfocused windows.

Of course it may not be such an obvious marking, depending on colours.
Indeed something like changing colours might be a nice addition.

Now that I'm looking at the icon manager anyway, another thing that
might be nice if its order reflected the window ring order, or that of
the yet-to-be-created window LIFO order. Or if you could rearrange the
order of the window-icons inside it by mouse or by f.functions.
(Not that that would be trivial, since the icon managers of the
different workspaces have a weird interdependent data structure and the
code to update it is weird and hard to comprehend).

> Aaron
-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X
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