[solved] DWM: Focus and mouse pointer?

Hello, I just went from openbox to dwm.
I really enjoy this so far, but there are two things that I don't like.
Lets say I have two views (1 & 2) with this kind of window layout:
| | B |
| A |_______|
| | |
| | C |
|_______|_______|
Steps:
1. I'm in view 1 and my mouse is over A and it's focused
2. I switch to view 2 (MODKEY+2) and move mouse pointer over B
3. I switch back to view 1 (MODKEY+1) - The focus is still on A, even though my mouse pointer is over B
Is this normal? I would like to set it so that focus always follows my mouse pointer,
I would also like it so that when I move focus with MODKEY+j/k it would move my mouse pointer over that window.
Is there an option or a patch to do this?
I'm using dwm-6.0.
Last edited by z7 (2012-12-26 21:37:06)

Unia wrote:
There's one here, but it might require some modifications as it's made for 5.9:
I don't know about the other, sorry.
Thanks! This "wrap" patch actually showed me that my first problem wasn't really a problem for me.
Now the pointer moves always over the last focused window when I switch back to a view.
And yes it applied fine to dwm 6.0.
edit. But it kind of ruins switching views from statusbar with mouse, since the pointer always hops to the center of focused window. But I think I can live with it.
Last edited by z7 (2012-12-26 21:41:42)

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