i3ipc-python
🐍 An improved Python library to control i3wm and sway. (by altdesktop)
sway-overfocus
"Better" focus navigation for sway and i3 (by korreman)
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0.0 | 1.0 | |
3 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
Python | Rust | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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i3ipc-python
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3ipc-python.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
- How to switch focus to last selected window?
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Is it possible to force all windows that move to a specific workspace and/or monitor to automatically become floating?
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.
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Use the same shortcut to switch containers and workspaces?
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.
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How to send all keystrokes to a specific window with a specific WM_CLASS regexp?
Untested but with i3ipc-python you should be able to write a script something like this:
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Can you alt+tab in i3 WM?
here you go, there's more stuff on the arch wiki
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Super Tab behavior like any other DE do with apps.
And this is the specific script to focus the last focused workspace https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python/blob/master/examples/focus-last.py
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sway-menu extended
Looks good, if you want to go even further you could replace calls to swaymsg with a python implementation python-i3ipc / i3ipc-python
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Issues with Runekit on Linux.
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.
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How to catch name of a window *at the exact moment of creation* before it changes? example: zoom notifications, them sly devils!
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
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Vertical Sidebar
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.
sway-overfocus
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-overfocus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-22.
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Don't swap focus to other side
You already got the answer, but for more flexible window/output navigation, see also https://github.com/korreman/sway-overfocus
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Use the same shortcut to switch containers and workspaces?
I wrote sway-overfocus to do this sort of thing. It should be able to do it with a command like this:
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Faster window switcher?
I wrote some alternative focus commands that parse the whole tree and search it twice. Takes around 2-10ms depending on your system.
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Do you use stacked / tabbed layouts a lot? What for?
I also wrote a program to make focus switching while tabbed/stacked less tedious.
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sway-overfocus: Easier & faster basic navigation between tabs and splits
Link to repository.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing i3ipc-python and sway-overfocus you can also consider the following projects:
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
dotfiles
runekit - Alt1-compatible widget host for RuneScape 3
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
psuinfo - A psutil-based command to display customizable system usage info in a single line, for Tint2 executors or CLI
i3-autoname
wofi-scripts - Scripts for wofi, a wayland compatible program launcher
i3-focus-last
runekit - Alt1-compatible widget host for RuneScape 3
i3-autosplit - To dynamically change the split direction in I3/Sway so as to split new windows automatically based on the width and height of the focused window
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
i3ipc-python vs rofi
sway-overfocus vs dotfiles
i3ipc-python vs runekit
sway-overfocus vs jq
i3ipc-python vs psuinfo
i3ipc-python vs i3-autoname
i3ipc-python vs wofi-scripts
i3ipc-python vs i3-focus-last
i3ipc-python vs runekit
i3ipc-python vs i3-autosplit
i3ipc-python vs alttab
i3ipc-python vs dotfiles