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by dkersten 5888 days ago
I do the same, only instead of dwm, I use musca. And I have 11 virtual desktops assigned to Super+<1 through 0, and the key left of 1>. I also always use the same virtual desktops for certain tasks, so finding windows is easy: firefox? its in the web browsing desktops: 7 and 8! Pidgin? Thats desktop 9, etc etc.

Finally, switching between windows within a single desktop is a simple matter of changing focus in a direction by using Super+<cursor keys> (I can resize and swap by using Super+Shift+<cursor keys> and Super+Alt+<cursor keys>).

I can also cycle through windows in one frame (Super+c), but its not often I have more than one window in a frame (since I normally have either one fullscreen window in a desktop or i have two to four windows tiled), but when I do, its normally only one, so cycling is more of a "toggle between windows" for me.

Super, being the "windows key", is a great key to use for window management. Windows key is for windows management is easy to explain to people ;-)

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I was debating on whether or not "Super+n" was too much of a Linux/Emacs-ism. But, at least on my keyboard, it is a diamond: http://comedialabs.com/images-matti/lite2.jpg