Re: [dwm] visibility of focused windows

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:11:02PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:44:34PM +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:51:30PM +0300, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> > > * Joerg van den Hoff <j.van_den_hoff_AT_fzd.de> [080304 17:21]:
> > > > question 1: should not the focused window be always brought
> > > > to the foreground irrespective of whether it is currently
> > > > maximized or not? it's even more irrating when you already
> > > > have a few maximized windows and then open another one: the
> > > > new window again will never be visible if you cycle the
> > > > focus with mod1-j as long as it is not maximized first.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just use monocle layout for that.
> > >
> > thanks for this hint. I'll have a look at that. question remains,
> > whether, if the current behaviour is seen as not desirable, it
> > can't be fixed in the main branch of `dwm', instead.
>
> monocle will be in mainstream dwm tonight.
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>

thanks a lot! this works nicely.

question: why is `togglemax' gone? it sure is useful (despite
'monocle') in the standard tiling layout for maximizing/restoring a
single window in turn.

joerg
Received on Wed Mar 05 2008 - 12:54:33 UTC