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VerticalEdgeSwitch down increases the workspace number, up decreases the workspace number #682

Closed cheapy closed 1 year ago

cheapy commented 1 year ago

VerticalEdgeSwitch=1

I move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, the down arrow appears, after a short delay the workspace switches up to the next one

This seems backwards.

Do I have something configured wrong?

gijsbers commented 1 year ago

All of the workspaces are organized in a grid. By default icewm uses 20 workspaces per row. The vertical edge switching goes from one row to the next (or previous) row. Hence by steps of 20. You can change this setup:

xprop -root -f _NET_DESKTOP_LAYOUT 32cccc -set _NET_DESKTOP_LAYOUT 0,5,7,0

will give you a workspace grid layout of 7 rows of 5 columns. I'm not aware of any handy utility for this.

Such a statement could be added to your ~/.icewm/startup.

gijsbers commented 1 year ago

@cheapy Could you try if you like the new Alt+Tab with history?

cheapy commented 1 year ago

I am still running the version from a few days ago with the enhancement to drag windows across the edges to the next or previous workspace.

I'm not sure what to test, but I'm on lunch from work, so will update code to current and recompile, and then check back here to see what you need me to try

cheapy commented 1 year ago

I have current code compiled and running Let me know how I should test. I saw issue 673 but not really understanding what I should be testing

cheapy commented 1 year ago

Ok, I figured it out. I combined 2 windows into one. If I have that window active and Alt+Tab, I can see both listed, and can make the other one active instead. But what I don't see is on the title bar, I would expect to see the title of the active tab, and another inactive tab on the titlebar with the 2nd window that is hiding behind it.

cheapy commented 1 year ago

I thought you might like to see this...

Thanks for all your help! edgeswitch-arrow

gijsbers commented 1 year ago

I see you have become a master in the art of cursor hotspot definitions!

cheapy commented 1 year ago

Yes, I got that working. It was actually not too hard once I saw it was really just a text file. Maybe that is also how to solve the bad colors of the arrows? I was hoping to make them black, white and transparent in the middle.

gijsbers commented 1 year ago

You could also try a utility to do this. After pixmap -in move.xpm you can tweak colors and define the hotspot.