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README.md
Swayr is a window switcher (and more) for sway
Swayr consists of a demon, and a client. The demon swayrd
records
window/workspace creations, deletions, and focus changes using sway's JSON IPC
interface. The client swayr
offers subcommands, see swayr --help
, and
sends them to the demon which executes them.
Right now, there are these subcommands:
switch-to-urgent-or-lru-window
switches to the next window with urgency hint (if any) or to the last recently used window.switch-window
displays all windows in the order urgent first, then last-recently-used, focused last and focuses the selected.switch-workspace
displays all workspaces in LRU order and switches to the selected one.switch-workspace-or-window
displays all workspaces and their windows and switches to the selected workspace or window.switch-workspace-container-or-window
shows workspaces, containers, and their windows in the menu program and switches to the selected one.quit-window
displays all windows and quits the selected one.quit-workspace-or-window
displays all workspaces and their windows and allows to quit either the selected workspace (all its windows) or the selected window.quit-workspace-container-or-window
shows workspaces, containers, and their windows and quits all windows of the selected workspace/container or the selected window.move-focused-to-workspace
moves the currently focused window or container to another workspace selected with the menu program. Non-matching input of the form#w:<workspace>
where the hash andw:
shortcut are optional can be used to move it to a new workspace.move-focused-to
moves the currently focused container or window to the selected workspace, container, or window. Non-matching input is handled like withmove-focused-to-workspace
.swap-focused-with
swaps the currently focused window or container with the one selected from the menu program.next-window (all-workspaces|current-workspace)
&prev-window (all-workspaces|current-workspace)
focus the next/previous window in depth-first iteration order of the tree. The argumentall-workspaces
orcurrent-workspace
define if all windows of all workspaces or only those of the current workspace are considered.next-tiled-window
&prev-tiled-window
do the same asnext-window
&prev-window
but switch only between windows contained in a tiled container.next-tabbed-or-stacked-window
&prev-tabbed-or-stacked-window
do the same asnext-window
&prev-window
but switch only between windows contained in a tabbed or stacked container.next-floating-window
&prev-floating-window
do the same asnext-window
&prev-window
but switch only between floating windows.next-window-of-same-layout
&prev-window-of-same-layout
is likenext-floating-window
/prev-floating-window
if the current window is floating, it is likenext-tabbed-or-stacked-window
/prev-tabbed-or-stacked-window
if the current window is in a tabbed or stacked container, it is likenext-tiled-window
/prev-tiled-window
if the current windows is in a tiled container, and is likenext-window
/prev-window
otherwise.tile-workspace exclude-floating|include-floating
tiles all windows on the current workspace (excluding or including floating ones). That's done by moving all windows away to some special workspace, setting the current workspace tosplith
layout, and then moving the windows back. If theauto_tile
feature is used, see the Configuration section below, it'll change from splitting horizontally to vertically during re-insertion.shuffle-tile-workspace exclude-floating|include-floating
shuffles & tiles all windows on the current workspace. The shuffle part means that (a) the windows are shuffled before re-insertion, and (b) a randomly chosen already re-inserted window is focused before re-inserting another window. So whiletile-workspace
on a typical horizontally oriented screen and 5 windows will usually result in a layout with one window on the left and all four others tiled vertially on the right,shuffle-tile-workspace
in combination withauto_tile
usually results in a more balanced layout, i.e., 2 windows tiled vertically on the right and the other 4 tiled vertially on the left. If you have less than a handful of windows, just repeatshuffle-tile-workspace
a few times until happenstance creates the layout you wanted.tab-workspace exclude-floating|include-floating
puts all windows of the current workspace into a tabbed container.toggle-tab-shuffle-tile-workspace exclude-floating|include-floating
toggles between a tabbed and tiled layout, i.e., it callsshuffle-tile-workspace
if it is currently tabbed, and callsshuffle-tile-workspace
if it is currently tiled.execute-swaymsg-command
displays most swaymsg which don't require additional input and executes the selected one. That's handy especially for less often used commands not bound to a key. Non-matching input will be executed executed as-is withswaymsg
.execute-swayr-command
displays all commands above and executes the selected one. (This is useful for accessing swayr commands which are not bound to a key.)
Menu shortcuts for non-matching input
All menu switching commands (switch-window
, switch-workspace
, and
switch-workspace-or-window
) now handle non-matching input instead of doing
nothing. The input should start with any number of #
(in order to be able to
force a non-match), a shortcut followed by a colon, and some string as required
by the shortcut. The following shortcuts are supported.
w:<workspace>
: Switches to a possibly non-existing workspace.<workspace>
must be a digit, a name or<digit>:<name>
. The<digit>:<name>
format is explained inman 5 sway
. If that format is given,swayr
will create the workspace usingworkspace number <digit>:<name>
. If just a digit or name is given, thenumber
argument is not used.s:<cmd>
: Executes the sway command<cmd>
usingswaymsg
.- Any other input is assumed to be a workspace name and thus handled as
w:<input>
would do.
Screenshots
Installation
Some distros have packaged swayr so that you can install it using your distro's
package manager. Alternatively, it's easy to build and install it yourself
using cargo
.
Distro packages
The following GNU/Linux and BSD distros package swayr. Thanks a lot to the respective package maintainers! Refer to the repology site for details.
![AUR swayr-git package status](https://repology.org/badge/version-for-repo/aur/swayr.svg?allow_ignored=yes&header=AUR swayr-git)
Building with cargo
You'll need to install the current stable rust toolchain using the one-liner shown at the official rust installation page.
Then you can install swayr like so:
cargo install swayr
For getting updates easily, I recommend the cargo install-update
plugin.
# Install it once.
cargo install install-update
# Then you can update all installed rust binary crates including swayr using:
cargo install-update --all
# If you only want to update swayr, you can do so using:
cargo install-update -- swayr
Usage
You need to start the swayr demon swayrd
in your sway config
(~/.config/sway/config
) like so:
exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 swayrd > /tmp/swayrd.log 2>&1
The setting of RUST_BACKTRACE=1
and the redirection of the output to some
logfile is optional but helps a lot when something doesn't work. Especially,
if you encounter a crash in certain situations and you want to report a bug, it
would be utmost helpful if you could reproduce the issue with backtrace and
logging and attach that to your bug report.
Next to starting the demon, you want to bind swayr commands to some keys like so:
bindsym $mod+Space exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr switch-window >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&1
bindsym $mod+Delete exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr quit-window > /tmp/swayr.log 2>&1
bindsym $mod+Tab exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr switch-to-urgent-or-lru-window >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&1
bindsym $mod+Next exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr next-window all-workspaces >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&2
bindsym $mod+Prior exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr prev-window all-workspaces >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&2
bindsym $mod+Shift+Space exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr switch-workspace-or-window >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&1
bindsym $mod+c exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr execute-swaymsg-command >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&1
bindsym $mod+Shift+c exec env RUST_BACKTRACE=1 \
swayr execute-swayr-command >> /tmp/swayr.log 2>&1
Of course, configure the keys to your liking. Again, enabling rust backtraces and logging are optional.
Configuration
Swayr can be configured using the ~/.config/swayr/config.toml
or
/etc/xdg/swayr/config.toml
config file.
If no config files exists, a simple default configuration will be created on the first invocation for use with the wofi menu program.
It should be easy to adapt that default config for usage with other menu programs such as dmenu, bemenu, rofi, a script spawning a terminal with fzf, or whatever. The only requirement is that the launcher needs to be able to read the items to choose from from stdin and spit out the selected item to stdout.
The default config looks like this:
[menu]
executable = 'wofi'
args = [
'--show=dmenu',
'--allow-markup',
'--allow-images',
'--insensitive',
'--cache-file=/dev/null',
'--parse-search',
'--height=40%',
'--prompt={prompt}',
]
[format]
window_format = 'img:{app_icon}:text:{indent}<i>{app_name}</i> — {urgency_start}<b>“{title}”</b>{urgency_end} on workspace {workspace_name} <i>{marks}</i> <span alpha="20000">({id})</span>'
workspace_format = '{indent}<b>Workspace {name} [{layout}]</b> <span alpha="20000">({id})</span>'
container_format = '{indent}<b>Container [{layout}]</b> on workspace {workspace_name} <i>{marks}</i> <span alpha="20000">({id})</span>'
indent = ' '
urgency_start = '<span background="darkred" foreground="yellow">'
urgency_end = '</span>'
html_escape = true
icon_dirs = [
'/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps',
'/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps',
'/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps',
'/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/apps',
'/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/48x48/apps',
'/usr/share/pixmaps',
]
[layout]
auto_tile = false
auto_tile_min_window_width_per_output_width = [
[1024, 500],
[1280, 600],
[1400, 680],
[1440, 700],
[1600, 780],
[1920, 920],
[2560, 1000],
[3440, 1000],
[4096, 1200],
]
In the following, all sections are explained.
The menu section
In the [menu]
section, you can specify the menu program using the
executable
name or full path and the args
(flags and options) it should get
passed. If some argument contains the placeholder {prompt}
, it is replaced
with a prompt such as "Switch to window" depending on context.
The format section
In the [format]
section, format strings are specified defining how selection
choices are to be layed out. wofi
supports pango
markup which makes it possible
to style the text using HTML and CSS. The following formats are supported
right now.
workspace_format
defines how workspaces are displayed,container_format
defines how non-workspace containers are displayed, andwindow_format
defines how application windows are displayed.- In these formats, the following placeholders can be used:
{name}
gets replaced by the workspace number, or name or a window's title. The placeholder{title}
is an obsolete synonym which will be removed in a later version.{layout}
shows the workspace or container's layout.{id}
gets replaced by the sway-internal con id.{indent}
gets replaced with N times the newformat.indent
value where N is the depth in the shown menu input.{app_name}
gets replaced with a window's application name.{marks}
shows a comma-separated list of the container's or window's marks.{app_icon}
shows the application's icon (a path to a PNG or SVG file).{workspace_name}
gets replaced with the name or number of the workspace the container or window belongs to.- The placeholders
{urcency_start}
and{urgency_end}
get replaced by the empty string if the window has no urgency flag and with the values of the same-named formats if the window has the urgency flag set. That makes it possible to highlight urgent windows as shown in the default config.
indent
is a string which is repeatedly inserted at the{indent}
placeholder in formats.html_escape
defines if the strings replacing the placeholders above (except for{urgency_start}
and{urgency_end}
) should be HTML-escaped.urgency_start
is a string which replaces the{urgency_start}
placeholder inwindow_format
.urgency_end
is a string which replaces the{urgency_end}
placeholder inwindow_format
.icon_dirs
is a vector of directories in which to look for application icons in order to compute the{app_icon}
replacement.fallback_icon
is a path to some PNG/SVG icon which will be used as{app_icon}
if no application-specific icon can be determined.
It is crucial that during selection (using wofi or some other menu program)
each window has a different display string. Therefore, it is highly
recommended to include the {id}
placeholder at least in container_format
and window_format
. Otherwise, e.g., two vertical splits on the same
workspace or two terminals (of the same terminal app) with the same working
directory (and therefore, the same title) wouldn't be distinguishable.
Hint for wofi: wofi
supports icons with the syntax
'img:<image-file>:text:<text>'
, so a suitable window_format
with
application icon should start with img:{app_icon}:text:
.
Hint for rofi: rofi
supports icons with the syntax
"<text>\u0000icon\u00001f<image-file>"
, so a suitable window_format
with
application icon should end with "\u0000icon\u001f<image-file>"
. Also note
that you must enclose your window_format
value with double-quotes and not
with single-quotes. Singe-quote strings are literal strings in
TOML where no escape-sequences are
processed whereas for double-quoted strings (so-called basic strings)
escape-sequences are processed. rofi
requires a null character and a
PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR for image sequences.
The layout section
In the [layout]
section, you can enable auto-tiling by setting auto_tile
to
true
(the default is false
). The option
auto_tile_min_window_width_per_output_width
defines the minimum width in
pixels which your windows should have per output width. For example, the
example setting above says that on an output which is 1600 pixels wide, each
window should have at least a width of 780 pixels, thus there may be at most
two side-by-side windows (Caution, include your borders and gaps in your
calculation!). There will be no auto-tiling doesn't include your output's
exact width.
If auto_tile
is enabled, swayr will automatically split either vertically or
horizontally according to this algorithm:
- For all outputs:
- For all (nested) containers on that output (except the scratchpad):
- For all child windows of that container:
- If the container is split horizontally and creating another window
would make the current child window smaller than the minimum width,
execute
split vertical
(theswaymsg
command over IPC) on the child. - Else if the container is split vertically and now there is enough space
so that creating another window would still leave the current child
window above or equal to the minimum width, call
split horizontal
on the child. - Otherwise, do nothing for this container. This means that stacked or tabbed containers will never be affected by auto-tiling.
- If the container is split horizontally and creating another window
would make the current child window smaller than the minimum width,
execute
- For all child windows of that container:
- For all (nested) containers on that output (except the scratchpad):
There is one caveat: it would be nice to also trigger auto-tiling when windows or containers are resized but unfortunately, resizing doesn't issue any events over IPC. Therefore, auto-tiling is triggered by new-window events, close-events, move-events, floating-events, and also focus-events. The latter are a workaround and wouldn't be required if there were resize-events.
Version Changes
Since version 0.8.0, I've started writing a NEWS file listing the
news, and changes to swayr
commands or configuration options. If something
doesn't seem to work as expected after an update, please consult this file to
check if there has been some (possibly incompatible) change requiring an update
of your config.
Questions & Patches
For asking questions, sending feedback, or patches, refer to my public inbox (mailinglist). Please mention the project you are referring to in the subject.
Bugs
Bugs and requests can be reported here.
Build status
License
Swayr is licensed under the GPLv3 (or later).