Thanks Perry but I already figured that out thanks to Julien
See: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00739.html if
you're curious.
cheers,
-Aaron
On 08:53 Wed 25 Feb , Perry Hargrave wrote:
>>> So far, I'm enjoying awesome a lot but I do miss being able to select
>>> left, right, up and down via h-j-k-l.
>
> You just need to change the keybinding behavior to use
> awful.client.focus.bydirection(direction)
>
> .bydirection expects the codes 'Left', 'Right', 'Up', 'Down'
>
> So something like:
>
> table.insert(globalkeys, key({modkey},"h", function()
> awful.client.focus.bydirection("Left") end))
>
> should work.
>
> You can look at revelation.lua (search wiki) for more of an example of how to
> use this.
>
> hth,
> perry
>
> On 02/23/2009 11:53 AM, bruce wrote:
>> I personnaly try but the result is that I keep using my mouse.
>> An other convenient stuff with wmii is the possibility to switch betwin
>> equally sized window to one fullcolumn window and the other minimized in
>> each column
>>
>> My understanding of awesome is quite weak.
>> Is there any howto or documentation about creating a layout?
>>
>> 2009/2/23 Aaron Grattafiori <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>
>> I recently switched from wmii using a custom wmii-python a month or so
>> ago to dwm. I tried using dwm but, because of the lack of a
>> different layout
>> per workspace (or whatever you want to call it) and non-column
>> system, I was
>> never fond of dwm (besides for the simple code and minimalism). Wmii is
>> great but the developers are stuck on plan9 stuff (the bash script is
>> always changing and neglected) and development is slow, community small.
>> I switched to awesome a few weeks ago too and haven't looked back.
>>
>> So far, I'm enjoying awesome a lot but I do miss being able to select
>> left, right, up and down via h-j-k-l. (For non-wmii users if I have a
>> screen with 6 terminals, all equally sized on my screen, 3 on each
>> "side" of the screen... with wmii I was able to directly go from the
>> "center" terminal on the left side to the "center" terminal on the right
>> side with a simply MODKEY-l. With dwm, awesome, x-modnad and almost
>> every other tiling window manager, you've gotta use the mouse or press
>> 'j' or 'k' until you've got the right window.
>>
>> I've thought about writing my own layout tracking thing or something to
>> do this to support switching virtual columns or something but I'm seeing
>> if I can get used to just cycling through with j and k. Maybe I'll work
>> on this tomorrow, as I too found it convenient.
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
>>
>>
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