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muz
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User's guide has these lines as an example :

# Get me to the next open VIM instance

bindsym $mod+a [class="urxvt" title="VIM"] focus

In my case, this always takes me to the LAST vim instance rather than the NEXT vim instance.

I would like to cycle between vim instances using a keybinding, is it possible to implement this with only config (no scripting)?

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answered Feb 18 '13

Michael
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No, cycling between windows is not possible without external scripting.

There is a script which focuses the next chrome instance on a workspace (which I believe is better than the “focus” command, which will just match any window AFAIR): http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3-egg/...

Maybe that can serve as a starting point/inspiration.

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Thank you for your response, your script i seems like a very good starting point indeed. Maybe somebody should edit the User's Guide to avoid misunderstandings, because it does sound like the cycling behavior is default.

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