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Focus follows mouse or click to focus?

Focus follows mouse or click to focus?

Posted Nov 17, 2011 5:28 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
Parent article: Awesome: A window manager that gets out of the way

I've been using fvwm for years and years, happy with its own version of minimalistic, but tags and something new to learn might tempt me to try this. But I see no mention of how to focus keyboard input in a specific window? Is there a choice between focus follows mouse and click to focus?


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Focus follows mouse or click to focus?

Posted Nov 17, 2011 11:55 UTC (Thu) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]

You might be interested in dwm; it's less focused on customisability, and is where the tag concept originated. Its default behaviour is focus follows mouse, but you can change that to click to focus using a little patch http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/focusonclick

You can also focus using the keyboard, using Mod-j / Mod-k to cycle through windows on the current tag(s); I imagine this is the same with Awesome.

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