Am 2013-08-20 16:36, schrieb Raphaël Proust:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Markus Teich
<markus.te...@stusta.mhn.de> wrote:
Nikolay Vasylchyshyn wrote:
Seems potentially very useful.
I'm very glad to read this. : )
I object. This "new" feature is already nearly there.
If you have two active windows, in which you are working,
just zoom them to the top of the client stack. Then you
can easily switch between them with MODKEY+j and MODKEY+k.
If you have three windows, in one third of the possibilities
of switching from any of client 1, 2 or 3 to one of the
remaining two clients you have to press one more key without
your patch: MODKEY+j+j instead of MODKEY+k and the other
way around. So during a prolonged work session you can save
1/3 * 1/3 = 1/9 of the keypresses with three actively used
clients.
I end up spending quite some keypresses getting the right order for my
windows. Especially when I bring together several tags and end up with
difficult to predict interleaving of windows.
If you use some clients (i assume you use them on top of the client
stack/list as i do), this happens automatically as you zoom needed
clients into the master area during work.
The setup takes some key presses with your patch too and
managing (remembering and getting the right key combinations
into muscle memory) the additional state of every client
in your brain also takes some more time.
Hence the idea of adding different colours. The state need not be
stored in your brain.
It still takes time getting used to this additional way of
achieving client selection.
Also i forgot to mention, that it seems unintuitive to me, that i have
to use the mouse to unignore a client, although the rest of dwm's
functions (appart from moving/resizing floatign windows) can be
accessed
just by the keyboard.
--Markus
