tint2 VS alttab

from what I understand u'r not rly looking for polybar , it just doesn't suit u (as a person who switched from KDE recently) , I think u'r looking for something like `tint2` , it looks horrible but u can customize it , check this and this

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.

Tint2 documentation may help.

As I understand tint2 has it's own blur mechanism. Awesome does not, all the blur is provided by picom.

The intersection of people using both StumpWM and the tint2 panel/taskbar is probably pretty small, so I've not a lot of hope, but here's the issue: for whatever reason tint2 will run fine the first time it's started on StumpWM, but restarting it or quitting and running it again doesn't work. If I run it from the commandline I can see that it seems to be starting normally, but it won't actually appear. Any ideas on why this might be or what a resolution/workaround might be. Currently I have to completely exit from StumpWM to get it to re-appear.

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The easiest way to have a systray with Spectrwm that I've found is with tint2

xfce4-panel which you apparently got rid of by now, fbpanel, polybar, tint2, etc.

I'm guessing this is the same problem as https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/-/issues/800

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.