This has nagged me for a long time. I wish to use ALT + TAB to switch between open windows BUT not cycling through them in the order they were opened; rather going between them in the order they were most recently used. EXAMPLE: if i have leafpad, sylpheed, and ROX open, and was working in sylpheed, and just now switched to leafpad, then pressing ALT + TAB one time would take me back to sylpheed. Now that i'm in sylpheed, pressing ALT + TAB one time would take me not to ROX, but right back to leafpad, where i was a moment ago. This is the the way it is typically done in other distros (and FWIW, Windoze), and is more convenient to me. The way it is set up in the default Puppy configuration, i have to cycle through all windows to go back to the previous one i was working in....quite the pain should one have, say, a dozen windows open!
I read at
Joe Wingbermuehle's website that in the .jwmrc file i can edit the line
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<Key mask="A" key="Tab">next</Key>
(in my case, line 436). There are four options listed for switching between windows with the ALT + TAB combination.
next = Switch to the next window in the task list. (the default, above)
nextstacked = Switch to the next window in the stacking order.
prev = Switch to the previous window in the task list.
prevstacked = Switch to the previous window in the stacking order.
However, changing "next" to "prev" or to "nextstacked" did NOT give me what i am looking for -- it simply continued to cycle through windows without reference to the previous window i was working on. Of course, i restarted the WM and even logged off and back on....no go.
Any insights?
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