From ruben.astud at gmail.com  Thu Aug 12 14:52:16 2021
From: ruben.astud at gmail.com (Ruben Astudillo)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:52:16 -0400
Subject: [xmonad] Best "go to previous window" solution
Message-ID: <38da2bec-95f9-1abf-825b-bec7e6519440@gmail.com>

Hello list.

To move to the previous selected window, I use the module
`XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation` and its `historyHook` with a key set up to
`nextMatch History (pure True)`. With this I can alternate to the previously
selected window. But it is not a repeatable process, because once I jump to
the previous window, the window from which I jumped becomes the "previous
window". That means I can only alternate between two windows with this setup.

What I would like is to have the equivalent of `C-o` on vim or `C-u
C-<space>` on emacs but without it being limited to two movements. What
modules on contrib should I be using?

-- 
-- Rubén. pgp: 4EE9 28F7 932E F4AD

From tomi at nomi.cz  Thu Aug 12 15:11:32 2021
From: tomi at nomi.cz (Tomas Janousek)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:11:32 +0100
Subject: [xmonad] Best "go to previous window" solution
In-Reply-To: <38da2bec-95f9-1abf-825b-bec7e6519440@gmail.com>
References: <38da2bec-95f9-1abf-825b-bec7e6519440@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <YRU6JJEMZbVAOihl@nomi.cz>

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:52:16AM -0400, Ruben Astudillo wrote:
>To move to the previous selected window, I use the module
>`XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation` and its `historyHook` with a key set up to
>`nextMatch History (pure True)`. With this I can alternate to the previously
>selected window. But it is not a repeatable process, because once I jump to
>the previous window, the window from which I jumped becomes the "previous
>window". That means I can only alternate between two windows with this setup.
>…

Last time I looked for this, nothing in xmonad-contrib seemed good 
enough (although I surely missed something) and I found 
https://github.com/sagb/alttab, which works well enough with xmonad and 
even shows icons to make it visually easier to use. :-)

-- 
Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://work.lisk.in/
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From allbery.b at gmail.com  Thu Aug 12 15:16:01 2021
From: allbery.b at gmail.com (Brandon Allbery)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:16:01 -0400
Subject: [xmonad] Best "go to previous window" solution
In-Reply-To: <38da2bec-95f9-1abf-825b-bec7e6519440@gmail.com>
References: <38da2bec-95f9-1abf-825b-bec7e6519440@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKFCL4Uq0AEe9M-+DFMG7L4uxS3LgVeDE6yCfPdkEcJoBmKM-g@mail.gmail.com>

Possibly XMonad.Actions.CycleWindows. This said, there's a standard set of
bindings to mod-j and mod-k (alternately mod-tab, mod-shift-tab) that might
do what you want.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:53 AM Ruben Astudillo <ruben.astud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello list.
>
> To move to the previous selected window, I use the module
> `XMonad.Actions.GroupNavigation` and its `historyHook` with a key set up to
> `nextMatch History (pure True)`. With this I can alternate to the
> previously
> selected window. But it is not a repeatable process, because once I jump to
> the previous window, the window from which I jumped becomes the "previous
> window". That means I can only alternate between two windows with this
> setup.
>
> What I would like is to have the equivalent of `C-o` on vim or `C-u
> C-<space>` on emacs but without it being limited to two movements. What
> modules on contrib should I be using?
>
> --
> -- Rubén. pgp: 4EE9 28F7 932E F4AD
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