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Add hotkeys to cycle left & right between window buttons like tabs

Window Buttons applet settings:
-Sorting Order: None, allow drag-and-drop
-Group windows by application OFF

I have noticed that xfwm4 offers quite a few different keyboard actions to navigate through window buttons. For the settings that I use (mentioned above), all of these keyboard actions seem to randomly cycle through window buttons. There does not appear to be any that just go from left to right & right to left. Graphical OSD for window cycling is not desired, just looking for some simple hotkeys.

I am requesting that something like this be added to xfwm4 hotkey section. Obviously user can customize what buttons they want to use for these actions, but I was thinking of something like....

HOTKEYS

Super+PageDown = select/cycle next panel window button to the right
Super+PageUp = select/cycle next panel window button to the left

Similar to how when you have a program with tabs you can use ctrl+page down & ctrl+page up to cycle between the them left and right.

Hotkeys would be applied to the window button that currently has focus and goes left or right based on that. I imagine would cycle back to beginning / end when reached like how tabs do.

Cycle just goes from left to right & right to left, what the window button applications are would have no affect on the cycling. So if you have multiple instances of Thunar open, each one would just be viewed as a seperate window button.

There are so many hotkeys it is hard to believe that a simple set like this does not exist.

Also if possible, I have noticed that some cycling hotkeys have issues when programs are opened in fullscreen, if possible if these hotkeys are added would be great if fullscreen programs are not treated any differently than maximized windows.

Thank you to anyone who reads this and to anyone willing to add on something like this.

Edited by advice