[xmonad] Best "go to previous window" solution

Tomas Janousek tomi at nomi.cz
Thu Aug 12 15:11:32 UTC 2021


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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