On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:12:22PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> 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.
> 

Correction to the other diff which had a side effect.  Running
group-only-N in the same N group raised the next window in the stack.


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	31 Jul 2025 14:12:12 -0000
@@ -214,6 +214,13 @@ void
 group_only(struct screen_ctx *sc, int idx)
 {
 	struct group_ctx	*gc;
+	struct client_ctx	*cc, *newcc;
+
+	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;
@@ -224,6 +231,10 @@ group_only(struct screen_ctx *sc, int id
 		else
 			group_hide(gc);
 	}
+
+	newcc = client_current(sc);
+	if (newcc == NULL)
+		client_raise(cc);
 }
 
 void



-- 
Walter