Openbox -> Fastest way move around windows?

Oxpoto · 2011-08-09 10:34:35

Alt-tab is not good enough, pretty time comsuming with lots of windows and alt-shift-tab is too hard to press, so when I pass my target I usually end up cycling a whole tour
openbox client menu is pretty good, but its still hard to move, specially with getting back to firefox is bit problematic as window titles changes as I browse.

I'm looking for something like skippy with hotkeys.

Last edited by Oxpoto (2011-08-09 20:00:37)

litemotiv · 2011-08-09 10:36:53

Could you add Openbox to your topic title, so that it is clear you are specifically using that?

roygbiv · 2011-08-09 10:38:41

I think cairo-compmgr has this kind of feature, if I understand you correct. You can assign any hotkey to it.

Draucia · 2011-08-09 10:48:52

You try using a tiling window manager. I suggest DWM.

karol · 2011-08-09 11:10:39

Draucia wrote:

You try using a tiling window manager. I suggest DWM.

+1
You can tag your windows and using e.g. Alt+<number> to display them should be easy enough. (You can use another modifier key instead of Alt.)
And Al-Tab still works.

Oxpoto · 2011-08-09 20:21:41

roygbiv wrote:

I think cairo-compmgr has this kind of feature, if I understand you correct. You can assign any hotkey to it.

I tried that, but wasn't able to find any hotkeys of it. I'm not meaning a hotkey to start the pager, I need a hotkeys to go the particular window

I was wondering if a 3rd party pager can have this kinda of hotkey support.

I'm also looking into dwm as adviced

ANOKNUSA · 2011-08-10 00:51:13

Most of the popular tiling WM's feature tag assignment for windows, so you can use hotkeys to arrange them. If you still feel more comfortable with floating windows, Awesome allows you to have titlebars (I believe wmii does too, but I'm not positive). I'm not sure if DWM does or not. But yeah, with tiled windows you need only flick your mouse or use the right keystroke, and focus moves where you want it. Short of those, try Pytyle in Openbox.

throdon · 2011-08-10 02:48:08

I usually go into the OB config and set a 1 or two pixel margin on one side or all sides and then use the middle button to give me the every desktop menu.

quigybo · 2011-08-14 10:51:33

You can always remap A-S-Tab to something more comfortable in rc.xml (A-grave maybe?) (also keep in mind you have the <allDesktops>yes</allDesktops> option), but for switching to specific windows wmctrl can help:

wmctrl -xa firefox

The -x flag tells it to search on WM_CLASS name, so even if the title changes it should still find firefox.

ijanos · 2011-08-14 11:51:11

Try the combined menu, it will show windows from all desktops and you can jump to any window by pressing the first letter of a title or use the up/down arrow keys.

I like to bind it to Windowskey-Tab:

<keybind key="W-Tab">
      <action name="ShowMenu">
        <menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
      </action>
    </keybind>

madalu · 2011-08-14 14:01:26

ijanos wrote:

Try the combined menu, it will show windows from all desktops and you can jump to any window by pressing the first letter of a title or use the up/down arrow keys.
I like to bind it to Windowskey-Tab:

+1

This is a very fast way to navigate windows. E.g., I'd simply press
"W-TAB n" to go to a browser window the NY Times as a title.

You could also use wmctrl and dmenu together. I.e., pipe the results
of wmctrl into dmenu and then use wmctl -a [selection]. Here's a very
quick proof of concept:

wmctrl -a $(wmctrl -l | cut -d " " -f 5- | dmenu)

thisoldman · 2011-08-14 14:49:23

I appreciated the reminder that I have the 'client-list-combined-menu' on a keyboard shortcut.

I also have the Win+Arrow keys set up for directional window switching:

<keybind key="W-Up">
  <action name="DirectionalTargetNorth">
    <finalactions>
      <action name="Focus"/>
      <action name="Raise"/>
      <action name="Unshade"/>
    </finalactions>
  </action>
</keybind>

There are similar modifications given in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93126.

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