notion-general

[Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Steven H. <sd...@gm...>]

Hello,

While I don't often use tagging to manipulate windows (simple enough to 
drag tags across multiple screens), sometimes it's handy to use the tab 
bar menu items.

Is there a way to configure the tab bar menu to be toggled on (or off if 
nothing is selected) vs needing to hold the right mouse button down to 
select a menu entry. This option would just be a bit more convenient 
while using a track ball mouse or tablet.

Regards,
Steven
-- 
"Truth or die."

Steven Hum  
5 - 28 Gilmour St  
Ottawa, ON K2P 0N3  
email sd...@gm...  
tel 613.237.9058  

Re: [Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Philipp H. <ph...@ph...>]

Hi,

sorry for the long delay.

> While I don't often use tagging to manipulate windows (simple enough to
> drag tags across multiple screens), sometimes it's handy to use the tab
> bar menu items.
>
> Is there a way to configure the tab bar menu to be toggled on (or off
> if nothing is selected) vs needing to hold the right mouse button down
> to select a menu entry. This option would just be a bit more convenient
> while using a track ball mouse or tablet.

Unfortunately this currently doesn't seem to be possible. There was a 
discussion with the subject "Mouse Click Context Menu Instead of Mouse Down" 
on the ion-general mailing list and Tuomo had to say this:

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:54:33PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> It's not possible. pmenu only works when the pointer is already
> grabbed. Maybe it would be possible to extend it by specifically
> grabbing again and adding other kludges. Add it to the Ion3+ wishlist
> if you want, but I don't personally care.

If this is important for you please file a feature request, maybe someone will 
implement it. 

You are aware though that there are easy key bindings for tagging and 
attaching a tagged client, right? You could also add a binding
for
  mod_menu.menu(_, _sub, 'ctxmenu') 
to the WFrame section of cfg_notioncore.lua. You could bind this to a key
or use the mclick function to bind it to a mouse button. However the menu then 
appears in the bottom left corner of the frame by default, so this is not 
exactly what you want. But maybe one of these solutions is acceptable for you?  
If not feel free to file the feature request. :)

Cheers,
Philipp

Re: [Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Steven H. <sd...@gm...>]

Thanks Philipp.

As I seemed to be tagging and attaching windows more often of late, 
I did end up defining keybindings to do so (which is so much more 
effective than groping with a mouse :-)

Steven

Excerpts from Philipp Hartwig's message of 2013-01-31 10:37:57 -0500:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the long delay.
> 
> > While I don't often use tagging to manipulate windows (simple enough to
> > drag tags across multiple screens), sometimes it's handy to use the tab
> > bar menu items.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure the tab bar menu to be toggled on (or off
> > if nothing is selected) vs needing to hold the right mouse button down
> > to select a menu entry. This option would just be a bit more convenient
> > while using a track ball mouse or tablet.
> 
> Unfortunately this currently doesn't seem to be possible. There was a 
> discussion with the subject "Mouse Click Context Menu Instead of Mouse Down" 
> on the ion-general mailing list and Tuomo had to say this:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:54:33PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> > It's not possible. pmenu only works when the pointer is already
> > grabbed. Maybe it would be possible to extend it by specifically
> > grabbing again and adding other kludges. Add it to the Ion3+ wishlist
> > if you want, but I don't personally care.
> 
> If this is important for you please file a feature request, maybe someone will 
> implement it. 
> 
> You are aware though that there are easy key bindings for tagging and 
> attaching a tagged client, right? You could also add a binding
> for
>   mod_menu.menu(_, _sub, 'ctxmenu') 
> to the WFrame section of cfg_notioncore.lua. You could bind this to a key
> or use the mclick function to bind it to a mouse button. However the menu then 
> appears in the bottom left corner of the frame by default, so this is not 
> exactly what you want. But maybe one of these solutions is acceptable for you?  
> If not feel free to file the feature request. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Philipp
-- 
"Truth or die."

Steven Hum  
5 - 28 Gilmour St  
Ottawa, ON K2P 0N3  
email sd...@gm...  
tel 613.237.9058  

Re: [Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Philipp H. <ph...@ph...>]

Hi Steven,

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Steven Hum wrote:
> As I seemed to be tagging and attaching windows more often of late, I
> did end up defining keybindings to do so (which is so much more effective
> than groping with a mouse :-)

good. :) Any reason why the default key bindings didn't suit you? META+T for 
tagging a client, META+K A for attaching the currently tagged client. See also
http://notion.sourceforge.net/notionkeys.html

Cheers,
Philipp

Re: [Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Steven H. <sd...@gm...>]

Hi Philipp,

Doh! I missed the Meta-K A binding reference in the cfg_notioncore.lua.  
Thanks for the link to the keyboard reference, great chart -- I need to 
pay closer attention to the sourceforge page.

Off topic: is there a development road map for notion published 
somewhere? Just curious what ideas the maintainers and developers are 
contemplating for my favourite wm, if any :-)

Regards,
Steven

Excerpts from Philipp Hartwig's message of 2013-02-03 12:29:50 -0500:
> Hi Steven,
> > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Steven Hum wrote:
> > As I seemed to be tagging and attaching windows more often of late, I
> > did end up defining keybindings to do so (which is so much more effective
> > than groping with a mouse :-)
> 
> good. :) Any reason why the default key bindings didn't suit you? META+T for 
> tagging a client, META+K A for attaching the currently tagged client. See also
> http://notion.sourceforge.net/notionkeys.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Philipp
-- 
"Truth or die."

Steven Hum  
5 - 28 Gilmour St  
Ottawa, ON K2P 0N3  
email sd...@gm...  
tel 613.237.9058  

Re: [Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

Hi Steven,

We don't have a roadmap per se, but what I can think of of the top of my
head:
* More default configuration (so most apps work out-of-the-box - most do,
but there's always room to improve)
* More streamlined release process (so we can do releases more often)
* More/better documentation and website
* Anything in the bugtrackers :)


Kind regards,

Arnout

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Steven Hum <sd...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Philipp,
>
> Doh! I missed the Meta-K A binding reference in the cfg_notioncore.lua.
> Thanks for the link to the keyboard reference, great chart -- I need to
> pay closer attention to the sourceforge page.
>
> Off topic: is there a development road map for notion published
> somewhere? Just curious what ideas the maintainers and developers are
> contemplating for my favourite wm, if any :-)
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> Excerpts from Philipp Hartwig's message of 2013-02-03 12:29:50 -0500:
> > Hi Steven,
> > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Steven Hum wrote:
> > > As I seemed to be tagging and attaching windows more often of late, I
> > > did end up defining keybindings to do so (which is so much more
> effective
> > > than groping with a mouse :-)
> >
> > good. :) Any reason why the default key bindings didn't suit you? META+T
> for
> > tagging a client, META+K A for attaching the currently tagged client.
> See also
> > http://notion.sourceforge.net/notionkeys.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Philipp
> --
> "Truth or die."
>
> Steven Hum
> 5 - 28 Gilmour St
> Ottawa, ON K2P 0N3
> email sd...@gm...
> tel 613.237.9058
>
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