stCarolas/Swytch

Swytch is a script providing a window switcher for sway using rofi, awk and jq

About

Swytch is a script allowing to switch windows in Sway (www.swaywm.org). Furthermore, it allows to send any sway command for a selected window to swaymsg.

The following programs are invoked:

• rofi (https://github.com/davatorium/rofi)
• jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
• gawk (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/)
• ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

Installation

1. Install the programs listed above.

2. Clone this repository or, alternatively, download only swytch.sh

3. Make swytch.sh executable by running "chmod +x swytch.sh" in the folder where the file is located

4. Configure the execution of swytch.sh in sway's configuration file. For example, adding the line

    bindsym ALT+Tab exec [path to swytch.sh]
   

   with the path to the script (without brackets) will launch the window switcher by pressing Alt+Tab.

   By default, Swytch focuses the selected window by sending the focus command for the selected window via swaymsg.
   However, Swytch allows to pass another sway command than focus to swaymsg. In order to do so, pass the desired command as an argument when executing Swytch. For example,

   bindsym ALT+Tab exec [path to swytch.sh] kill
   

   will kill the selected window instead of focusing it.

   You can learn about available sway commands via the respective sway manpage:

   man 5 sway
   

5. Reload Sway to make the changes effective

Usage

See https://github.com/davatorium/rofi for the general usage of rofi.
In a nutshell, simply select the desired Window using the arrow keys or by typing a part of it's name and press enter.
The window list has the form:

[Workpace name][* if window is active] [application id] [window name] [window id]

The workspace names are colored in order to help noticing which windows are on the same workspaces quickly.