Re: [dwm] visibility of focused windows

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:54:33PM +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> 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.

Well, I propose using setlayout("[M]") and setlayout("[]=")
instead.

Kind regards,

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