xmenu VS alttab

It does not have a context menu. Instead, it uses a script set in the $XFILES_CONTEXTCMD environment variable. This script must call xmenu, pmenu, thingmenu, jgmenu, or any other mouse-controllable menu; and gets as argument the paths to selected files.

xmenu

Another not centric way, but simple and fast is xmenu, which allows to use simple scripting for each row (common for any WMs): * https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu

here you go this is exactly what you want. You could reimplement this in your build or follow the suckless philosophy and use this tool.

xmenu https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu and generate with xdg-xmenu https://github.com/OliverLew/xdg-xmenu, I like this style and configuration of it. It is not in lua, but idea and concept is suckless.

Haven't tried this one since dmenu works for me, but I think xmenu might have better support for it. It's not as suckless but honestly dealing with multiple languages sucks lol

Nice. I also wrote a popup menu utility that has the same input-to-output interface as dmenu. But mine is a little more bloated: it supports input from keyboard, nested menus, icons and label/command separation.

The only other requirement should be xmenu

Have a look into dmenu, rofi and xmenu. They are all good at different things. The first two are keyboard driven and support a basic application menu by default. Xmenu is more like a context menu. For the most part you create the menus yourself with scripts. You can pipe stuff into their stdin and get the selected entry via stdout. Here is an example of what I use for my dwm build.

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.