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How to match all windows except current focused window?

asked 2015-10-03 03:07:25 +0000

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There's a nice value "focused" by which to match all windows. Is it possible to match windows by "unfocused"? How to match all windows except the focused one?

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answered 2015-10-03 11:34:55 +0000

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I hoped there was a built-in way to do it in i3wm. In Openbox there is:

<action name="ForEach"> <focused>no</focused> <then> <action...

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You can always submit a feature request or provide a patch yourself. By the way, you shouldn't add comments as answers.

i3convert ( 2015-10-03 15:42:52 +0000 )edit

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answered 2015-10-03 05:41:40 +0000

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You can always write a script that parses the output of the shell command i3-msg -t get_tree to extract IDs of all windows that match your criteria (whatever they are). Then you can use those identifiers to match the windows one by one.

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