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A tiling window manager is driven from the keyboard, and the first thing a key has to do is move the focus. `komorebic focus left|right|up|down` gives the focus to the window whose tile is on that side of the focused one, as the layout sees it, and `komorebic cycle-focus next|previous` to the next or the previous window in the workspace's order, wrapping around. Neither moves a window: the focus changes, the tiles stay. The pointer follows the focus, through KWin's "Move Mouse to Focus", unless `mouse-follows-focus disable` (or `toggle-mouse-follows-focus`) says not to. Focusing towards a side with no window fails and changes nothing. Crossing into the next monitor, as komorebi does on the other platforms, comes with more than one monitor; so do eager-focus and the parts that depend on the monocle, maximized and floating windows. The VM test now drives the focus with komorebic in a real KWin and checks that KWin and komorebi agree on the focused window afterwards.
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Focusing windows
komorebi gives the focus to another window of the focused workspace when it is told to. It moves no window to do it: the windows stay on their tiles, and KWin makes the chosen one the active window.
In a direction
komorebic focus focuses the window whose tile is on one side of the
focused one: left, right, up or down. Which tile is on which side is the layout's
business. In the BSP layout with three windows, for example, the first window has the left
half, and focus right from it goes to the window at the top right.
komorebic focus left
komorebic focus down
komorebic focus up
komorebic focus right
When there is no tile on that side, nothing happens, and the daemon logs "there is no container in this direction".
In order
komorebic cycle-focus focuses the next or the previous window in the
order of the workspace, which is the order in which the windows were opened, each new one
after the window that had the focus. It wraps around: next from the last window is the
first.
komorebic cycle-focus next
komorebic cycle-focus previous
The pointer
By default the pointer moves to the middle of the window that is given the focus. komorebi asks
KWin to do it with its "Move Mouse to Focus" shortcut, so the pointer follows only in a session
that has KWin's global shortcuts (a headless KWin has none).
komorebic mouse-follows-focus turns this on or off, and
komorebic toggle-mouse-follows-focus switches between
the two:
komorebic mouse-follows-focus disable
komorebic toggle-mouse-follows-focus
The setting is in the daemon's state as mouse_follows_focus, and it lasts until the daemon
stops.
Binding them to keys
komorebi reads no keys. Bind the commands to keys in Plasma's System Settings, under Keyboard,
Shortcuts, as custom shortcuts that run a command: for example Meta+H for
komorebic focus left and Meta+L for komorebic focus right.