I try to emulate workspaces (or virtual desktops) behavior of most
window managers using the following settings in my ~/.cwmrc:

  bind-key CM-1 group-only-1
  bind-key CM-2 group-only-2
  bind-key CM-3 group-only-3
  bind-key CM-4 group-only-4

  bind-key SM-1 window-movetogroup-1
  bind-key SM-2 window-movetogroup-2
  bind-key SM-3 window-movetogroup-3
  bind-key SM-4 window-movetogroup-4

The problem I'm encountering is that when I move a window to another
group (using window-movetogroup-N), then switch to the group (using
group-only-N) I find that the window has gone to the back instead of the
front, as I think it should.  The diff below solves the problem.


Index: group.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/xenocara/app/cwm/group.c,v
diff -u -p -r1.138 group.c
--- group.c	27 Jan 2022 18:45:10 -0000	1.138
+++ group.c	28 Jul 2025 10:45:02 -0000
@@ -214,16 +214,27 @@ void
 group_only(struct screen_ctx *sc, int idx)
 {
 	struct group_ctx	*gc;
+	struct client_ctx	*cc;
+
+	if (TAILQ_EMPTY(&sc->clientq))
+		return;
+
+	cc = client_current(sc);
+	if (cc == NULL)
+		cc = TAILQ_FIRST(&sc->clientq);
+	else
+		cc = client_next(cc);
 
 	if (sc->group_last != sc->group_active)
 		sc->group_last = sc->group_active;
-
 	TAILQ_FOREACH(gc, &sc->groupq, entry) {
 		if (gc->num == idx)
 			group_show(gc);
 		else
 			group_hide(gc);
 	}
+
+	client_raise(cc);
 }
 
 void


-- 
Walter