Re: cwm(1) without warping the pointer

On 2026-07-04 13:49, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 08:49:02AM +0200, NilsOla Nilsson wrote:
>> The "focus previous" is a very good improvement. If you
>> open a shell for a fast check and the closes it f.ex.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> not always. Focus is never preserved which often, at
>> least for me, means that I start writing in another
>> window than what i meant to.
>>
>> This seems to be Aric's problem as well.
>>
>
>Let's see if what I'm about to explain helps everyone to organize
>ideas.
>
>In cwm the default behavior is to give focus to the window where the
>pointer lands.  The cases where this doesn't happen is because, for
>convenience, it's avoided through some hack.  One of these hacks is
>making the pointer jump (warp), for example when we 'create' a window;
>otherwise, the new window wouldn't gain focus.  Another example is when
>you change focus from one window to another without using your mouse (or
>from your keyboard with pointer-move.)
>
>If, like me, you prefer the keyboard, any time you want to go back to
>(or alternate with) the window you were previously working on, you
>depend on the cycle stack (don't confuse this with "layers", cwm does
>not support layers.)  In cwm the function to do this is window-cycle (I
>bind it to Ctrl-Tab, as in most modern window managers.)  The dynamic of
>this feature is negatively affected by mouse focus: every time you move
>the pointer, whether intentionally or accidentally, any visible window
>under its trajectory is loaded in the cycle stack.  In the so-called
>"strict" mouse focus you'll find in many window managers, this also
>happens when you close or un-maximize a window.  Then, when you cycle
>back with the intention to focus and raise the window you were working
>on, you first have to pass throw all those ones that accidentally won
>the focus.  As if this were not enough, if when closing the active
>window the pointer lands on the root window, an extra unwanted step is
>added to the cycle. 

Yes, it is also annoying to accidentally hit the mouse while cycling 
windows! I thought it was just me. 

It is great to see interest in making cwm even better than it already 
is. 

Aric