wmfocus VS xorg-choose-window

Compare wmfocus vs xorg-choose-window and see what are their differences.

wmfocus

Visually focus windows by label (by svenstaro)

xorg-choose-window

A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg. (by ikn)
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wmfocus xorg-choose-window
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6.8 0.0
23 days ago about 1 year ago
Rust C
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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.
  • Ace jump for i3
    2 projects | /r/i3wm | 10 Mar 2023
    I think wmfocus (Github, Arch) should be what you are looking for. It describes itself as "heavily inspired by i3-easyfocus."
  • Problem starting application with comma flags on i3config
    1 project | /r/i3wm | 9 Dec 2022
    I use wmfocus to switch my floating window efficiently.
  • sway-overfocus: Nicer basic navigation between tabs and splits in i3/sway
    1 project | /r/i3wm | 2 Mar 2022
  • Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints
    7 projects | /r/bspwm | 24 Oct 2021
    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).
  • Relative Window Selection
    2 projects | /r/i3wm | 12 Jan 2021
    I use this one: https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus
  • sway window selector
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 5 Jan 2021

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.
  • Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints
    7 projects | /r/bspwm | 24 Oct 2021
    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 wmfocus and xorg-choose-window 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

easyxmotion - Jump to windows in a style similar to the easymotion vim plugin, best with tiling WMs

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.

i3lockr - Distort a screenshot and run i3lock