[xmonad] focus but hidden

David S. dschein at fsinnovations.net
Fri Jun 6 12:20:57 EDT 2008


Dougal Stanton wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM, David S. <dschein at fsinnovations.net> wrote:
>   
>> Occasionally  I will have 2 or more windows on a workspace and fullscreen
>> tiling and when I switch focus, the red border on the visible window goes
>> away, but it does not switch to the other window.
>>
>> <snip>
>>     
>
> This may sound silly, but have you accidentally floated your front
> window? It can be easy to do if you hold down the xmonad meta-key and
> click in the window. It wouldn't be immediately obvious but you'd
> never get your other windows back.
>
> Try meta-t to tile them again (for whatever meta key you have bound; I
> think the default is alt?).
>
> Cheers,
>
> D
>
>   
Sweet!  That was it---I should just disable this touchpad on my laptop.  
Thanks much.

Peace,
David S.


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