i3ipc-python VS alttab

i3ipc-python seems to do what I want -- it even has a script specifically for this -- and for existing windows moving to the space I think I can just use the binding.

Any reason not to use i3ipc-python? The module will talk over the ipc socket rather than calling out to (relatively expensive) i3-msg subprocesses to do it.

Untested but with i3ipc-python you should be able to write a script something like this:

here you go, there's more stuff on the arch wiki

And this is the specific script to focus the last focused workspace https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python/blob/master/examples/focus-last.py

Looks good, if you want to go even further you could replace calls to swaymsg with a python implementation python-i3ipc / i3ipc-python

I could probably use the i3ipc-python (https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python) library (which works with both i3 and Sway) to make a Sway-specific implementation, but then it would be up to other people to implement support for things like KDE Wayland and Gnome Wayland.

This is kind of interesting for me. I ran into a problem with spotify, I couldn't assign it to its proper workspace... The reason was because spotify does not put proper values in at startup (sometimes it manages, but mostly not), in bspwm there were subscribe that just dumped data out. I3 you can subscribe as well, but it seems they want you to use more libraries. I found this https://i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html, through that I found https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python, installed it with

The end goal is to make something that interacts with https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python, or something similar, so I'm fine with something closer to a library.

If you already have rofi you can to do rofi -show window there's also a standalone window switcher https://github.com/sagb/alttab

Anyhow I found this program called alttab which I use now

Do you mean currently visible desktops or windows? https://github.com/sagb/alttab is the utility of my choice to get what I wanted.

Jumping to the actual tag/monitor will also make sure it does not break other tools, like `alttab` (https://github.com/sagb/alttab) for example.

I also read about the alttab program

I know youre asking about how to setup sxhkd to do this but could I also suggest an app that does this very well? Its called alttab on git hub.

alttab

Generally the icon of an application is defined by its desktop-entry. The patch desktopentry serves this purpose. Unfortunately, some programs like tint2 or alttab can't make use of the desktop-entry and rely instead on a hardcoded icon which has to be defined by the application itself with the window-propery _NET_WM_ICON. Since st doesn't define _NET_WM_ICON this programs can't display the correct icon for st even if a desktop-entry exists. This patch solves this problem.

If i use alttab it would still detect only 3 windows. So the question is: how can I make it so that the tabs in a tabbed session are recognized as individual windows? Any shell script or tool is accepted

There is also alttab but in my limited try it just Alt-tabs between windows in a workspace. Might have settings for others but I'm not aware of that.