Re: focusup and friends on multihead setups

2009/10/6 Torbjörn Söderstedt <[email protected]>:
> I have now returned to Ratpoison one more time, and decided to fix the
> multi-head issues that got me to abandon it the last time. It sure feels good to
> be back!
>
> The focusup/left/down/right commands are currently restricted to one screen. I

As another multi-head Ratpoison user, I've become accustomed to that
restriction and using 'sselect screennumber' to switch screens (there
are also 'nextscreen' and 'prevscreen').

> have attached a patch makes these commands move focus to the next screen when
> the current frame is at the edge of the current screen. The exchange* commands
> should do the same, but I didn't attempt to implement that.

Is it trickier than setting your new all_screens argument to 1? I
think behavior should be consistent.
Do the other (non-directional) focus commands already span screens (I
don't use them)?
Are there other commands that should also be updated to be consistent?

> I thought I'd ask about your opinion on this first.

I think it's a good option but should only behave this way if an
associated user variable is set to 1.