Sway Window Switcher

sakarie9/sway-window-switcher

A Python script to help list and switch sway windows easily through Fuzzel.

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A Python script to help list and switch sway windows easily through Fuzzel.

Requirements

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• Sway
• A dmenu launcher, including fuzzel and rofi
• Python3
• jq
• Grep

Also a nerd font is required if icons not show correctly. You can change fonts in your launcher settings.

Usage

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1. Get sway-window-switcher.py to somewhere you can execute.

2. Run sway-window-switcher.py --help to get help.

   > sway-window-switcher.py -h
    usage: sway-window-switcher.py [-h] [-t {all,floating,scratch,regular}] [--plain-output] [-l {fuzzel,rofi}]
   
    List and select windows using swaymsg and dmenu launchers like fuzzel and rofi.
   
    options:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      -t {all,floating,scratch,regular}, --type {all,floating,scratch,regular}
                            Type of window to list. Defaults to "all".
      --plain-output        Print a plain, unbeautified list to dmenu.
      -l {fuzzel,rofi}, --launcher {fuzzel,rofi}
                        Specific a dmenu launcher to use. Will use first exist launcher if not define.
   

3. Bind the script to sway keybind to use it easily.

   For example, to list all the windows in scratchpad and switch to it you can have this in sway config:

   bindsym $mod+x exec sway-window-switcher -t scratch

   Make sure sway-window-switcher is in you PATH.

Thanks to

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• codingotaku/fuzzel-scripts

  This script is basically a more featured python rewrite version of codingotaku’s script.

• Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel

  We used the windowTitleMap from HyprPanel for a better look.