On 11846 March 1977, Julien Danjou wrote:
> First of all, let me recall something that pops up once in a while:
> a screen does _not_ have focus. Never. A client can haz it, but not a
> screen. :-)
Well. focus was just a description of "where the action ends up to be". :)
> Then, what's disturbing you is that by default, the keybindings are done
> like this:
> awful.key({ modkey }, i,
> function ()
> local screen = mouse.screen
> if tags[screen][i] then
> awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
> end
> end),
> where 'i' is a a tag number.
> It means that when you'll press modkey + 1, it will switch to the
> tag 1 of the screen the mouse is on (mouse.screen).
> You can avoid that by modifying the line
> local screen = mouse.screen
> with
> local screen
> if client.focus then screen = client.focus.screen else screen =
> mouse.screen end
> So, if a client has focus (client.focus ~= nil) then screen will be that
> client screen number, otherwise it will pick-up your action for the
> screen the mouse is on.
> There is various place with such code, because this has been the default
> behaviour for the last year.
That does work, great.
> And I hope I understand your problem well, otherwise let us know.
Yes you did. And having done the above change to my config I can say it
works. At least for all those where the keybinding actually includes the
screen.
Take the following ones as example:
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show(true)
end),
They still happen to do their action wherever the damn mouse is...
Guess I have to find out how to tell them to restrict themselve in the
same way as your example above. Hope thats possible.
[5 minutes later]
Ok, seems to be, at leasst for the first 3, by not using viewprev/next,
as they unfortunately take no argument. (Wishlist: Let them take a
screen number as an optional argument).
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", function ()
local screen
if client.focus then screen = client.focus.screen else screen =
mouse.screen end
awful.tag.viewidx(-1, screen)
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", function ()
local screen
if client.focus then screen = client.focus.screen else screen =
mouse.screen end
awful.tag.viewidx(1, screen)
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", function ()
local screen
if client.focus then screen = client.focus.screen else screen =
mouse.screen end
awful.tag.history.restore(screen)
end),
Dont know how to do the same with menus yet.
This is a little "unstable", as it switches "focus" as soon as you
encounter the first empty tag (as then it takes mouse.screen), but its
better than nothing, for now. Maybe there is a way to do it even nicer,
not switching "focus" when one encounters an empty tag.
--
bye, Joerg
<madduck> and yes, the ftpmasters are not the most clueful people
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