wmfocus
Visually focus windows by label (by svenstaro)
easyxmotion
Jump to windows in a style similar to the easymotion vim plugin, best with tiling WMs (by loki42)
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| wmfocus | easyxmotion | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 213 | 13 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.0 | 10.0 | |
| 10 days ago | about 12 years ago | |
| Rust | Python | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wmfocus
Posts with mentions or reviews of wmfocus.
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
I think wmfocus (Github, Arch) should be what you are looking for. It describes itself as "heavily inspired by i3-easyfocus."
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Problem starting application with comma flags on i3config
I use wmfocus to switch my floating window efficiently.
- sway-overfocus: Nicer basic navigation between tabs and splits in i3/sway
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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).
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Relative Window Selection
I use this one: https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus
- sway window selector
easyxmotion
Posts with mentions or reviews of easyxmotion.
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 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).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wmfocus and easyxmotion you can also consider the following projects:
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
i3-easyfocus - Focus and select windows in i3
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
xorg-choose-window - A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg.
i3-automark - Auto mark windows in i3
penrose - Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.
glimmer - A small tool to use along with i3/Sway to add CSS-powered decorations to your focused windows, for better usability.
xorg-choose-window - A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg.
i3lockr - Distort a screenshot and run i3lock