Application which aims to make some of the focus movement in i3 more intuitive.
It's initial version was written in python, however python was too slow to start, so the control felt unresponsive, so I switched to c++
The main goal is to allow to move focus according to the visual space on the screen, to resolve some of the annoyances of i3.
One of the main adventages of tiling wms is ability have everythong You need to see simutalniously on single screen. With that in mind, Your workflow probably involves moving around windows You see. That makes the way tabs work in i3 a bit counterproductive, because if You use tabs, that's probably because You want to hide something that You don't imidatiely want to see or use (maybe keep for later). So Your focus movement should in first priority focus around the visual space You have at hand. The way tabs work, they mess up Your workspace, unless You want to dive into structures of the windows.
i3switch aims to resolve that issue, giving You a tool that allows to separate tab switching from focus movement.
Example of the issue:
The movement now can be separated into tab, and directional movement:
Problem with i3 directional movement is that it acknowledges focus history and containers over focus direction. It of course has it's pros, but often I expect the focus to move in the direction in relation to the current container.
Example of bad behaviour without i3switch:
And here's a solution to the problem.
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switch to nth tab/stack of closest ancestor tabbed container
i3switch number N -
switch to next/previous tab/stack
i3switch (left|right) [wrap]-
tab/stack wrapping
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visual space focus movement
i3switch (left | up | right | down) [wrap] -
switch to next/previous floating window
Switch windows like i3 switches them by default. Same use case as switching tabs, but context is different.
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visual space focus floating movement
Switch windows basing on their middle point. Currently not working properly.
- tests
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -C build
# or alternatively
./build.sh release
sudo make -C build install
- i3
- nlohmann/json
- depopt