Previous Window To set focus in the reverse order of Next Window, choose Previous Window from the Workspace menu. This can be useful to circulate through all the windows on the screen. It differs from shuffling windows. Next Window will always go to the next window even if it is not obscured and it will always make that window active. For example, if you have three windows: a clock, the session manager, and a DECterm, which is active. If you select Next Window, then the clock may become active. If you select Next Window again, then the session manager will become active. If you choose Previous Window, then the Clock becomes active again.