Switching and swapping windows with ace-jump/easymotion-like hints

• xorg-choose-window

  2 12 0.0 C

  A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg.

In https://www.reddit.com/r/bspwm/comments/hksei7/some_less_common_tips_tricks_for_sxhkd_and_bspwm/fwv7y4y/ , @Inyayde shows an even more sophisticated and really neat set of bindings for bspwm to swap, switch, etc, using xorg-choose-window (https://github.com/ikn/xorg-choose-window). But, as mentioned in the original comment and right below in the other two comments, the font is tiny and the overlay covers the complete window, so you cannot see the contents of the windows.

• easyxmotion

  1 13 10.0 Python

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

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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• i3-easyfocus

  2 171 0.0 C

  Focus and select windows in i3

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).

• wmfocus

  6 214 6.8 Rust

  Visually focus windows by label

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).

• xorg-choose-window

  1 0 0.0

  A utility for choosing from visible windows in Xorg. (by rdiaz02)

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).

• wmfocus

  1 2 0.0

  Visually focus windows by label (by rdiaz02)

Great, thanks. Now available from https://github.com/rdiaz02/wmfocus/tree/stdin

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