[xmonad] focus but hidden

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Fri Jun 6 12:51:04 EDT 2008


dschein:
> Dougal Stanton wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM, David S. <dschein at fsinnovations.net> 
> >wrote:
> >  
> >>Occasionally  I will have 2 or more windows on a workspace and fullscreen
> >>tiling and when I switch focus, the red border on the visible window goes
> >>away, but it does not switch to the other window.
> >>
> >><snip>
> >>    
> >
> >This may sound silly, but have you accidentally floated your front
> >window? It can be easy to do if you hold down the xmonad meta-key and
> >click in the window. It wouldn't be immediately obvious but you'd
> >never get your other windows back.
> >
> >Try meta-t to tile them again (for whatever meta key you have bound; I
> >think the default is alt?).
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >D
> >
> >  
> Sweet!  That was it---I should just disable this touchpad on my laptop.  
> Thanks much.

I wonder what more we could do to signal something has floated.

-- Don


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