Hi,
first of all congrats about pekwm, its great, small, has great
theme capabilities and its not bloated at the same time.
I am longtime fluxbox user, so I brought some of my habits
into pekwm world, after taking some time with configuration
of pekwm I have several remarks about it.
1. FEATURE REQUEST: NextFrame/NextFrameMRU without window list
No matter if you use NextWindow/NextGroup (on fluxbox) ALT-TAB
usage does not display any window list, but just switches focus
to next window immediately, it would be nice to have an option
to disable the window list on ALT-TAB on pekwm.
I would add it as last true|false value at the end of [1]
NextFrame(MRU) to show/not show window list while switching
windows or as one of the options in ~/.pekwm/config file
[1] -NextFrame alwaysraise|endraise|neverraise true|false
[1] +NextFrame alwaysraise|endraise|neverraise true|false true|false
2. FEATURE REQUEST: NextFrame/NextFrameMRU another behavior
With current pekwm options you cannot get ALT-TAB behavior
from fluxbox, I will try to explain as simple as possible
how it works there.
Lets assume that we have a lot of windows on current workspace,
some iconified, some covered by other windows, etc.
fluxbox:
You hit ALT-TAB and you immediately have focused next window,
while still holding the ALT you hit TAB again and the window
that was brought to front goes back to its place (to iconified
state or below other windows where it was), and next window
is presented to you, after next TAB hit, the second one goes
back to its place (iconified/below if it was there) and next
one is "presented".
Generally when you ALT-TAB-TAB-TAB-... thru all windows on
current workspace, and select your new window focus, then
ONLY the selected one will be brought to front, all the rest
(iconified/on front/covered by others below) will still be
untouched, will be still on their place.
pekwm:
(closest setting) --> NextFrameMRU alwaysraise true
With that after you hit ALT-TAB, next window gets focus
and is brought to front, with next TAB hit, just previewed
window STAYS on front, and next one is brought to front.
In other words after ALT-TAB-TAB-TAB-... cycle all windows
that was "on the road" to the one you needed are brought
to top, no matter if they were iconified/stayed below,
they DID NOT went back to their place but were brought
to top.
... and that is the feature I would love to see on pekwm
dunno how to name it, skipraise? previewraise? ;)
3. Flicker free ALT-TAB <--> ALT-SHIFT-TAB
Currently when you hit ALT-TAB to start window switching
with next TAB hit would just move focus to list on that
window list, now, when you press SHIFT-TAB while still
holding ALT, it will flick and of course switch one
window/position back, it would be nice to have flicker
free version, but I understand, that this behaviour
simplifies implementation, but as I am already writing
to You, I thought that I will also mention that.
I think thats all I wanted to rant about ;)
Regards,
vermaden