Re: Cycling through tiled windows

fantasai <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
cothrige wrote:
> Okay, probably a very dumb question here.  If I split a screen into
> three tiled windows, such as:
> 
> ___________________________
> |                               |                             |
> |                               |              B            |
> |                               |                             |
> |              A               | ____________|
> |                               |                             |
> |                               |               C           |
> |                               |                             |
> | _____________|____________ |
> 
> How can I cycle focus among all three windows using the keyboard?  I
> can Alt-Tab (actually Super-Tab on my box) from left to right, which
> would be like A -> B and B -> A, but I cannot move from B -> C or
> vice-versa.  To do that I have to use the mouse, which is obviously
> less than desirable.  I have read through the docs and the config
> files hoping to see something which may relate to this in the
> bindings, but there seems to be nothing there beyond the side to side
> action.
> 
> Surely this is possible, but for some reason I am overlooking it.  How
> exactly would I manage to cycle through all three of these windows?

Look in cfg_ioncore.lua, there's a comment about "Forward-circulate focus".
Below it there are two keybindings. Change 'left' and 'right' to 'next'
and 'prev'.

~fantasai
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