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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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[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Try sway. It's great and just works.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

Does sway have the feature OP is asking for, or are you just suggesting a different tiling window manager, and they would still be left solving the same problem?

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Sway does not allow you to jump directly to a non-adjacent window natively, no.

But find sway-easyfocus which I contributed to. It does exactly this.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

[-] myrmidex@belgae.social 4 points 3 days ago

+Left, +Right, for windows. +1,2,3,... for screens. Doesn't get easier than that. Love Sway!!

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

While I love sway, it's not the easiest to work with if you want to do something specific. swaymsg -t get_tree and get good at jq 🤣

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