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Navigating across floating windows

asked 2014-02-28 14:29:25 +0000

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Hi,

sometimes, I have to float specific windows. And this makes navigation difficult, because I am not able to navigate to/from floating windows using keyboard shortcuts.

Is it possible to navigate across floating windows using keys ??

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answered 2014-02-28 14:40:30 +0000

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You can navigate between several floating windows with focus left and focus right. Switching focus between floating and tiling is done with focus mode_toggle.

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I don't know if this is deliberate, but you can move a floating window with the same bindings that move a tiled window within a container. The steps are quite small and well chosen. I do hope this feature stays in i3.

KJ44 ( 2014-03-02 17:16:41 +0000 )edit

It is deliberate. The distance in pixel can be supplied after the direction: `move left 100 px`. See the [section on layout manipulation in the User's Guide](http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_manipulating_layout)

Adaephon ( 2014-03-03 05:45:18 +0000 )edit

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