i3-easyfocus
Focus and select windows in i3 (by cornerman)
xorg-choose-window
A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg. (by ikn)
| i3-easyfocus | xorg-choose-window | |
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| 2 | 2 | |
| 171 | 12 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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i3-easyfocus
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3-easyfocus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.
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Ace jump for i3
i3-easyfocus presents itself as following
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Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints
I've searched around for similar tools (and this has been asked in the past in other places: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368825/select-x-windows-using-the-keyboard-like-ace-jump-hint-following-or-similar). The only tools I've found, in addition to XMonad's EasyMotion, are https://github.com/loki42/easyxmotion (mentioned in the stackexchange link) but after some quick and dirty hacks of the code (which is way over my head) I was not able to get much larger fonts nor obtain the window ID. There are also two tools that work with i3: https://github.com/cornerman/i3-easyfocus and https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus . Both give window's IDs and the last one displays large fonts with a small square background, so hints have great visibility. Both should, in principle, be window manager agnostic (https://github.com/cornerman/i3-easyfocus/issues/3 , https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus/issues/4 ), but those issues for WM-independent implementations are still open and the only existing implementations are for i3. (I played with both and looked at the code, but removing the i3 dependencies was not obvious to me ---and wmfocus is Rust, which I've never dealt with before).
xorg-choose-window
Posts with mentions or reviews of xorg-choose-window.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-24.
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Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints
I've modified xorg-choose-window so that: a) the overlays only cover a small fraction of the window, so the window's contents are visible; b) a larger (but much uglier) font is among the commented out options you can try. Code available from https://github.com/rdiaz02/xorg-choose-window/tree/smaller-overlay (branch "smaller-overlay" of my fork of ikn's xorg-choose-window: https://github.com/ikn/xorg-choose-window).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing i3-easyfocus and xorg-choose-window you can also consider the following projects:
wmfocus - Visually focus windows by label
xorg-choose-window - A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg.
easyxmotion - Jump to windows in a style similar to the easymotion vim plugin, best with tiling WMs