Re: [Usability]multihead screen focus handling

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to actually use multihead and have noticed that (among
> quite a few bugs) we don't seem to have good handling of which screen
> is currently focused.
>
> The focused screen matters e.g. when I press a shortcut to change
> workspaces, which screen does it affect. Or if I alt+tab, do I get
> windows on screen 0 or screen 1 in my list of windows.
>
> Right now the focused screen is the one that contains the focused
> window.
>
>  - "the screen containing the mouse cursor" seems a bit more
>    convenient to me
Actually, I like how it is now.  I use "click to focus", so the screen containing the currently focused window being the currently focused screen makes sense to me  (did that sound right?).
>  - either way, we don't seem to have any way to change the focused
>    screen using only the keyboard (alt+tab lists only windows on the
>    focused screen, so there's no way to focus a window on another
>    screen)
Indeed, it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to do this.  Is there much stopping us from adding one?

Thanks,
James