[xmonad] Ratpoison style focus

wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
Fri May 14 00:38:10 EDT 2010


There's the "focusFollowsMouse" option, there are keybindings for  
modifying the focus in the default configuration, and there are  
contrib modules for moving the pointer relative to the currently  
focused window or screen (in X.A.Warp and friends). Do these handle  
your wishes?
~d

Quoting Davi Reis <davi.reis at gmail.com>:

> Hi xmonad friends,
>
> I am a long time orphan of ratpoison, and after trying ion3, dwm,
> awesome and many others I finally settled on xmonad + kde. Simple to
> configure and a joy to use. Great work.
>
> The only thing that still bothers me is not having ratpoison-style
> focus, which means separated mouse and keyboard focus. I find it very
> useful for writing code in my xterm (konsole, actually) while I use
> gmail from a browser in another window. This prevents long mouse trips
> between the browser and the terminal (and these monitors keep getting
> bigger and bigger).
>
> Any hints? Is this something possible to achieve with existing contrib
> extensions? I couldn't find anything.
>
> --
> []s
> Davi de Castro Reis
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