application switcher?

answered Mar 2 '13

lkraav
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Not sure if this isn't a duplicate of my question: https://faq.i3wm.org/question/228/how...

Anyway, the i3-py solution there works great for me.

answered Mar 4 '13

Mario Sandler
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echo -ne "i3-ipc\x0\x0\x0\x0\x4\x0\x0\x0" | 
    socat STDIO UNIX-CLIENT:`i3 --get-socketpath` | 
    tail -c +15 |
    sed -e 's/"id":/\n"id":/g' | 
    sed -ne 's/.*"name":"\([^"]\+\)".*"window":\([0-9]\+\).*/\1 \2/p' |
    dmenu -i -l 7 -b |
    sed -ne 's/.* \([0-9]*\)/[id=\1] focus/p' |
    (read cmd; i3-msg "$cmd")

answered Jun 8 '15

chilicuil
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I reworked Rasi solution to avoid python and bash, it behaves exactly the same but with less dependencies (dmenu and sh)

https://github.com/minos-org/minos-to...

answered May 10 '14

sml
1 ●1

updated May 10 '14

I'm using a ruby script, with this map:

bindsym $mod+g exec ~/.i3/window-jump

The advantages of this script are that it only requires dmenu, finds windows in the scratch space, and focuses by unique ID rather than title.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'json'

# recursively walk tree to find all containers
# return an array of names followed by [id]
def get_containers tree
    containers = []
    # try to return only useful containers
    if (tree['nodes']+tree['floating_nodes']).empty? && tree['type'] == 2 &&
        !(tree['name'] =~ /^i3bar for output/)
        containers << tree['name'] + " [#{tree['id']}]"
    end
    (tree['nodes'] + tree['floating_nodes']).each do |node|
        containers += get_containers(node)
    end
    containers
end

IO.popen(['dmenu', '-i', '-p', 'window jump'], 'r+') do |dmenu|
    dmenu.puts(get_containers(JSON.load(`i3-msg -t get_tree`)))
    dmenu.close_write
    id = dmenu.read.split(/\[|\]/).last
    exec "i3-msg [con_id=#{id}] focus"
end

answered Mar 2 '13

Rasi
26 ●2

#!/bin/bash
#source ~/.config/teiler/config
DMENU_OPTS="-fn "Source\Code\Pro-12" -nb #000000 -nf #a0a0a0 -sb #0c73c2 -sf #ffffff -l 18 -p $(basename $0)"

# Present a menu with all windows
TITLE="$(i3-msg -t get_tree | python -mjson.tool | sed -n -e 's/^ \{35\}[ ]\+\"name\": \"\(.*\)\", $/\1/p' | sed '/^#[a-F0-9]\{6\}$/d' | dmenu $DMENU_OPTS)"

if [ -z "$TITLE" ] ; then
   exit 1
fi

# Escape some characters to prevent i3 to interpret them as a pattern
# "(" and ")" replaced with "\(" and "\)"
TITLE="$(echo "$TITLE" | sed 's/\([()]\)/\\\1/g')"

# Focus window
i3-msg "[title=\"$TITLE\"] focus"

answered Mar 2 '13

badboy_
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I use quickswitch (or the original one in python: quickswitch.py).

There is also a more fancy version: simpleswitcher