cycling through windows

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Sun Dec 9 20:04:42 UTC 2001


Scott Wallace wrote:
> 
> At 6:41 PM -0500 12/7/01, Doug Way wrote:
> >About the only other things we'd need would be to be able to bring
> >different windows to the fore with the keyboard...
> 
> Note that "cmd-\" can be used from the desktop to send the top window
> to the back; repeated use of this allows you to cycle through all the
> windows in a project in z-order without needing to touch the mouse.

Thank you for the hint!

That has motivated me to implementing the reverse command "cmd-|", which
sends the bottom window to the front.
I have just posted it as changeset in mail
	[ENH] CommandSendToFront-sr
.

Greetings,

Stephan

	
> 
> This used to be easily usable whenever the cursor was out over open
> desktop.  With the arrival of lazy keyboard defocus, sometimes one
> now first needs to do something to shake off an unwanted keyboard
> focus, *then* start hitting cmd-\ to cycle windows.  One good way to
> shake off a keyboard focus is to click on the desktop, or hit
> control-esc (after today's updates.)
> 
>    -- Scott

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Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
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    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
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