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HarveyHunt / howm

A lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like vim
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Pressing OTHER_MOD + {hc/lc} won't change focus to right or left client in Vertical Layout #8

Closed anubhavcodes closed 9 years ago

anubhavcodes commented 9 years ago

If you open two clients in horizontal layout you can switch the focus between them using OTHER_MOD + {jc/kc}. However when you change the layout to vertical, the same keys are used to change the focus between them and not OTHER_MOD + {hc/lc} as per the vim motions.

Can you reproduce it @HarveyHunt

HarveyHunt commented 9 years ago

This is just down to how howm is designed. Clients are stored in a linked list, with no facility to work out which clients are positioned next to each other.

I think adding this will just add complexity and not be worth it.

anubhavcodes commented 9 years ago

Agreed, practically this will increase the complexity, but if you are a user who will see two clients side by side, his first notion will be to use h,l to navigate coming from vim, rather than using j,k

But like you said it does opens up the danger to drastically change the design of howm.