Re: [Usability]multihead screen focus handling

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 18:23, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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> > >  - 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?
>
> Mostly a question of what the shortcut does: warps the mouse pointer
> to the other screen, focuses an arbitrary window on the other screen,
> focuses a panel on the other screen... ?
I would be okay with focusing either the last window focused on that screen, or the nautilus desktop.  I think the former would make the most sense, IMHO.  I guess it might be good to see what CDE or KDE does here, but I don't have either of those available to compare.

Thanks,
James