Keymap to switch between monitors

[Lang-Lovdog]

Issue Type

• Bug Report
• Feature Request
• Enhancement

Description

Switch between different monitors without mouse, using keymapping.

Behavior

Hit mapped key in order to change focus from monitor X to monitor Y.

Checklist

• I have searched for duplicate issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.

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[yazeed1s]

@Lang-Lovdog the feature should be available in #36. You can use it with

; cycle focus between monitors
bind = super|ctrl + right -> func(cycle_monitors:next)
bind = super|ctrl + left -> func(cycle_monitors:prev)

I am traveling rn, i cannot merge it to main before i test it fully. Feel free to pull the code from #36 and use it.

[Lang-Lovdog]

@yazeed1s, Thanks, I'll test it. Well, I guess “test” is not the right verb. But it is the nearest.

[yazeed1s]

@Lang-Lovdog np

[Lang-Lovdog]

@yazeed1s Happy new year!
I know it's not the place hahaha. But, wanted to wish you a good year.

[yazeed1s]

@Lang-Lovdog thanks buddy, i wish you a new happy year too. Make the most out of it!

[Lang-Lovdog]

@yazeed1s, Tahks!!!

Going back to the window manager. Everything's working fine with the monitor cycle feature!
And the keyboard resizing fits pretty well the window manager, I can say I feel pretty comfortable with it.

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I'll just discovered that GTK applications GUIs tend to glitch or just doesn't display.
xdotool windowmap does the trick most of the times. If there's a dropdown or tray icon hidde feature, then I can try to hidde and show as many times as needed to display correctly the window. I only got that, but can't say why it can be.

Also, since I discovered xdotool window mapping feature, I'm interested in create a complement to zwm for hidden window management (it'll be TUI or CLI, tho). Do you know if XCB is capable of that? (srry I'm too new into this field of user interfaces).

[yazeed1s]

@yazeed1s, Tahks!!!

Going back to the window manager. Everything's working fine with the monitor cycle feature!

And the keyboard resizing fits pretty well the window manager, I can say I feel pretty comfortable with it.

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I'll just discovered that GTK applications GUIs tend to glitch or just doesn't display.

xdotool windowmap does the trick most of the times. If there's a dropdown or tray icon hidde feature, then I can try to hidde and show as many times as needed to display correctly the window. I only got that, but can't say why it can be.

Also, since I discovered xdotool window mapping feature, I'm interested in create a complement to zwm for hidden window management (it'll be TUI or CLI, tho). Do you know if XCB is capable of that? (srry I'm too new into this field of user interfaces).

Thanks! I have merged the latest changes to main yesterday. Seems like the implementation has been solid so far. Regarding the gtk issue, can you give me a specific application so i can investigate this further? Most likely im ignoring some window hints or forcing some behavior for dropdown menus and such. For the cli/tui complement, yes you can absolutely do that using xcb. There's functions for mapping or unmapping windows, but u need to query x11 to find the window id you're interested in, or let the user supply that for you. I think some applications don't support this hide behavior, there's a protocol for that, but u can force whatever behavior u want on windows.

[yazeed1s]

Lemme know if i can help with this tool you're planning to implement, i will be happy to do so

[Lang-Lovdog]

About GTK applications I use that glitches, there are

• Cinelerra-GG which, doesn't use GTK toolkit, but its toolkit is based on GTK as long as I found on a research I did.

• Ardour, which uses GTK2 for its GUI

• xfce4-terminal, no matter if it's the drop-down or the window, it glitches hahaha, I'm using alacritty now because of it, and no regrets! Alacritty is way more customizable than xfce4 terminal.

[Lang-Lovdog]

About GTK applications I use that glitches, there are

• Cinelerra-GG which, doesn't use GTK toolkit, but its toolkit is based on GTK based on a research I did.

• Ardour, which uses GTK2 for its GUI

• xfce4-terminal, no matter if it's the drop-down or the window, it glitches hahaha, I'm using alacritty now because of it, and no regrets! Alacritty is way more customizable than xfce4 terminal.

[Lang-Lovdog]

Lemme know if i can help with this tool you're planning to implement, i will be happy to do so

Thanks!!, I think it would be good to have documentation or references about xcb.

[yazeed1s]

Okay cool, i haven't actually used any of these apps, but i will install them this week and investigate what's going on. I'll open a new issue for it soon. Thanks for reporting this!

[yazeed1s]

Lemme know if i can help with this tool you're planning to implement, i will be happy to do so

Thanks!!, I think it would be good to have documentation or references about xcb.

Yeah that's desirable, but unfortunately xcb is poorly documented, its docs are filled with TODOs from like 10 years ago. But you should be able to find superficial information about the api, and if you wanna dig deeper you need to do lots of source code reading. I use i3 and awesomewm as a reference, they've documented the xcb api better than xcb devs themselves.

[Lang-Lovdog]

Lemme know if i can help with this tool you're planning to implement, i will be happy to do so

Thanks!!, I think it would be good to have documentation or references about xcb.

Yeah that's desirable, but unfortunately xcb is poorly documented, its docs are filled with TODOs from like 10 years ago. But you should be able to find superficial information about the api, and if you wanna dig deeper you need to do lots of source code reading. I use i3 and awesomewm as a reference, they've documented the xcb api better than xcb devs themselves.

Hahaha, it's funny that the most useful libraries, usually are the less documented.

Thanks for the advice. I was wondering where to take the docs.

[yazeed1s]

Lemme know if i can help with this tool you're planning to implement, i will be happy to do so

Thanks!!, I think it would be good to have documentation or references about xcb.

Yeah that's desirable, but unfortunately xcb is poorly documented, its docs are filled with TODOs from like 10 years ago. But you should be able to find superficial information about the api, and if you wanna dig deeper you need to do lots of source code reading. I use i3 and awesomewm as a reference, they've documented the xcb api better than xcb devs themselves.

Hahaha, it's funny that the most useful libraries, usually are the less documented.

Thanks for the advice. I was wondering where to take the docs.

Lol, yeah that's the unfortunate truth about old libraries. But xcb is commonly used tho, u should be fine with source code based knowledge.