WWM

Forked from yalibian/i3-windows, to extend it into a full minimal window manager .

Switch to virtual desktops 1-9 using ⊞-# and backfill # of desktops if needed
Move active windows to virtual desktops 1-9 using ⊞-shift-# and backfill desktops if needed
Cycle through workspaces(virtual-desktops) with win + z,win + x
Delete Workspaces with win + shift + w
Add Workspaces with win + a
adjust your system sound with win + mousewheel
Close windows with win+w
Open Windows Termianl with win+t

Known issue

when an application is launched with admin priveleges and you focus on the window script stops working.

Dependencies

Windows 10
AutoHotkey v1.1+
VirtualDesktopAccessor.dll
ctypes
win32con
subprocess
pycaw
tkinter
tkinter.font
winreg
sys
win32api
os
win32gui
comtypes
to install of those dependencies type pip3 install ctypes subprocess pycaw tkinter .font winreg sys pywin32 os ast comtypes

Running on boot

You can make the script run on every boot with either of these methods.

Simple (Non-administrator method)

Press Win + R, enter shell:startup, press OK
Create a shortcut to the desktop_switcher.ahk file here

Advanced (Administrator method)

Windows prevents hotkeys from working in windows that were launched with higher elevation than the AutoHotKey script (such as CMD or Powershell terminals that were launched as Administrator). As a result, Windows Desktop Switcher hotkeys will only work within these windows if the script itself is Run as Administrator, due to the way Windows is designed.

You can do this by creating a scheduled task to invoke the script at logon. You may use 'Task Scheduler', or create the task in powershell as demonstrated.

# Run the following commands in an Administrator powershell prompt. 
# Be sure to specify the correct path to your desktop_switcher.ahk file. 

$A = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute "PATH\TO\desktop_switcher.ahk"
$T = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogon
$P = New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -GroupId "BUILTIN\Administrators" -RunLevel Highest
$S = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -ExecutionTimeLimit 0
$D = New-ScheduledTask -Action $A -Principal $P -Trigger $T -Settings $S
Register-ScheduledTask WindowsDesktopSwitcher -InputObject $D

The task is now registered and will run on the next logon, and can be viewed or modified in 'Task Scheduler'.

Original credits

Thanks to Ciantic/VirtualDesktopAccessor (for the DLL) and sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer (for the DLL usage samples) our code can move windows between desktops.

Possible developments

Full rewrite in guile scheme/common lisp
Add tiling window manager capabilites
Add application launcher that will mimic all of the behaviour and extensibility of dmenu with common lisp/guile scheme
write a better notificaion handler that will look pretier
add theming support
Solve the problem with Priveleged applications making the script stop working

fislysandi/wwm