[xmonad] Best "go to previous window" solution

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 15:16:01 UTC 2021


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?
>
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