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Wayland, Switching between & focusing windows with just hotkeys? (infosec.pub)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Edit: I want a graphical window switcher that's fully keyboard controlled, so I can see the windows before switching them.

The screenshot is from hyprland-easymotion which only shows labels for visible windows. I want a switcher that allows for both switching to windows or the same, or from any app, using just the keyboard and no mouse.

Ideally I could go to a window without pressing tab or another key a bunch of times, perhaps select any window (visible or not) with a letter like easymotion.

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[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sway. Windows manager, switcher... all that. Fully keyboard controlled. You can change any key combination you don't like. :)

[–] TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Does sway have a built-in GUI switcher, or any 3rd party switchers like I described?

[–] mranderson17 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So this is not exactly what you want, but have you seen the rofi -show window feature? There's no preview of the window, but it does display the title even if the window is not on the current workspace.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

rofi works in Wayland now? I know there's like a fork that supports Wayland?

[–] mranderson17 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The fork was merged into rofi, See the Announcement at the top of the readme for the fork.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh sh—, nice!

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know if I understood correctly but I have seen this maybe this helps:

[–] TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

what exactly?