Hey Manolo,
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Manolo Mart�nez wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a pull request that provides the means to
> return to the previously focused window (if it exists). That is, for
> example, if I'm
> on window1 and launch a window2, MOD+p (say) would take me back to
> window1.
There's the swapfocus pull request at
http://dwm.suckmore.org/pull requestes/swapfocus. The
downside to this pull request is that it remembers _only_ the least recently selected
window, and changing tag sets or opening and closing windows will often strip
you of the ability to go back to a previously selected client.
I wrote an alternate version of swapfocus that sorta works on a per-tag basis.
See the pull request comments for an explanation of the "sorta" part. That pull request had
its own problems as well, specifically that due to the way I wrote it, opening
a new window would throw of the previous client selection at times. Some days
ago, I decided to take a completely different approach and wrote the
"lastclient.diff" pull request that is also attached. With this pull request, every time a
window is focused, the time the window was focused is recorded. When you call
the lastclient function, the least recently focused window is selected which
eliminates problems with changing tags, but depending on your workflow, the
focused timestamp base approach may throw you off at times.
Eric
Received on Thu Dec 13 2012 - 22:20:18 CET