[hackers] [PATCH 1/2] focus urgent tabs

From: Jonas Rabenstein <jonas.rabenstein_AT_studium.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:11:15 +0200

With a lot of open tabs its quite annoying to toggle through all tabs
until reaching the next one with an urgent hint set. Also with using
Ctrl-[0..9] to get to the first 10 tabs, in some cases this may have
disadvantages:
1. with more than 10 tabs, you can not use that quickselection
2. with a small tabbed window, you do not see every tab in the
   statusbar and therefore do not know which tab got urgent

Therefore I created a function, which iterates over all currently
managed tabs, focus the first urgent tab found or stays at the current
tab, if there is no urgent-tab. By default, that function is mapped to
Ctrl-u.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Rabenstein <jonas.rabenstein_AT_studium.uni-erlangen.de>

---
 config.def.h |  2 ++
 tabbed.1     |  3 +++
 tabbed.c     | 12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index b3da7f0..55bec4c 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
_AT_@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ static Key keys[] = { \
 
 	{ MODKEY,                       XK_q,      killclient,     { 0 } },
 
+	{ MODKEY,                       XK_u,      focusurgent,    { .v = NULL } },
+
 	{ 0,                            XK_F11,    fullscreen,     { 0 } },
 };
 
diff --git a/tabbed.1 b/tabbed.1
index 9e32115..05ac355 100644
--- a/tabbed.1
+++ b/tabbed.1
_AT_@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ an already existing tab.
 .B Ctrl\-q
 close tab
 .TP
+.B Ctrl\-u
+focus next urgent tab
+.TP
 .B Ctrl\-[0..9]
 jumps to nth tab
 .TP
diff --git a/tabbed.c b/tabbed.c
index b15f9cb..93c9d0f 100644
--- a/tabbed.c
+++ b/tabbed.c
_AT_@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ static void expose(const XEvent *e);
 static void focus(int c);
 static void focusin(const XEvent *e);
 static void focusonce(const Arg *arg);
+static void focusurgent(const Arg *);
 static void fullscreen(const Arg *arg);
 static char* getatom(int a);
 static int getclient(Window w);
_AT_@ -492,6 +493,17 @@ focusonce(const Arg *arg) {
 }
 
 void
+focusurgent(const Arg *args) {
+	int c;
+	for(c = (sel+1)%nclients; c != sel; c = (c+1)%nclients) {
+		if(clients[c]->urgent) {
+			focus(c);
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+void
 fullscreen(const Arg *arg) {
 	XEvent e;
 
-- 
2.5.0

Received on Wed Aug 19 2015 - 21:11:15 CEST