focus last over monitors

[d3m1gd]

focus-workspace-previous and workspace-auto-back-and-forth seem to work within a single monitor, and it would be nice to have actions that span monitors as well, as in focus-workspace-previous-over-monitors and workspace-auto-back-and-forth-over-monitors so that with a single key press we colud jump to last workspace on another monitor and back-and-forth would be jumping back across monitors as well.

for example. monitor A has named workspaces "1" "2" "3", and B has "4" "5" "6".
assume we are on "5", and back-and-forth is active, so focusing 2 and then again focusing 2 will focus "1" or "3" which is surprising, if one expects to land back on "5". and focus-workspace-previous-over-monitors is a simple action allowing to Alt-Tab between monitors with ease. They are in the same idea thread, because they carry a same idea behind, of switching between monitors with repeated keypress of a single key.

focus-workspace-previous-over-monitors does not mean to focus other monitor in every instance, but actual last workspace. in example above with A and B, if we are on "5" and previous was "6", the action is supposed to select "6", but if previous was "2", then jump to "2", keeping history list across monitors.

[YaLTeR]

I think it'd make sense if focus-workspace-previous and workspace-auto-back-and-forth worked across monitors too. Might've been an omission when named workspaces were implemented. (Would need some refactoring though.) @algernon do you remember if there was a specific reason they weren't changed?

[algernon]

No specific reason other than me forgetting it.