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Using the awesome window manager (version 3.5.6), I'm looking for a way to move may focus to the left/right/up/down relative to my currently focused client. For instance, given this layout:

+-----+-----+-----+ | | | | | A | B | C | | | | | +-----+-----+-----+

If the focus is on client A, I'd like a keyboard shortcut that moved the focus to client B. Pressing it again would focus on client C and pressing it another time would do nothing. Other shortcuts would move to the right, up or down.

I know how to bind commands to keyboard shortcuts in my rc.lua but not which command I could use here, so any help would be appreciated!

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  • By "view" I assume you mean "client"? Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 20:27
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    Yes, thanks for mentioning it. I've updated the lingo in my question. Commented Mar 24, 2015 at 6:57

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I believe you are looking for awful.client.focus.by_direction.

https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/classes/client.html#awful.client.focus.bydirection

For example:

# dir The direction, can be either "up", "down", "left" or "right". awful.key({ modkey, }, "j", function () awful.client.focus.bydirection("down") end)
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