Re: Keybinding, lower window, focus next stacked window

On 25 November 2013 05:53, Pedro Martinez-Julia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to define a keybinding to lower a window and give focus to
> the window that is just below it. For the moment I'm using ":MacroCmd
> {Lower} {FocusUp}" but it does not do exactly what I want. If you know
> how to achieve what I want, please let me know. Thank you.

>From the 'better late than never' dept. - I think I have a solution to
this little problem. It relies on the 'xdotool' utility (on fedora
etc: 'yum install xdotool')

In .fluxbox/keys:
OnWindow Mod1 Mouse2 :MacroCmd {Lower} {ExecCommand focus-top}
... or whatever keystroke you like. I like Alt-Mouse1 to pop the
window to the front and Alt-Mouse2 to pop it to the back. YMMV.

Then in a file 'focus-top' somewhere on your path:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# use xdotool to give focus to the topmost window containing the cursor:
eval $( xdotool getmouselocation --shell )
X_CURSOR=$X
Y_CURSOR=$Y
HIT=
# note that xdotool search displays the windows with the topmost window last:
for WIN in $( xdotool search --desktop $( xdotool get_desktop) . ); do
    eval $( xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell $WIN )
    (( X_CURSOR >= X && ( X_CURSOR <= X + WIDTH ) && Y_CURSOR >= Y &&
( Y_CURSOR <= Y + HEIGHT) )) && HIT=$WIN
done
[[ "$HIT" ]] && xdotool windowfocus $HIT

... seems to work for me ... don't  forget to 'chmod +x focus-top'

Cheers



Bob

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