A work n progress!

A command line tool to switch the active window using the keyboard, displays an overlay on dekstops to select a window, mostly used for tiling window managers. Tested on i3, awesome and qtile...

Requirements:

A Windows manager compositor (compiz and picom tested), I am working on fake transparency, but all this X stuff is new to me. Tested with i2, awsome and qtile.

Build requirements:

• lib XCB-dev/

• lib XCB-util (for ewmh)

• lib freetype2.0-dev/

• lib gtk3.0-dev/

• lib Cairo-dev

• Clone the repo:/

• git clone https://github.com/pchareest2000/winswitch.git/

• cd winswitch/

• make/

• Copy winswitch somewhere in your path/

• Bind a keyboard shortcut to winswitch (see your tiling window manger documentation) example for i3:/

• bindsym $mod+s exec "${HOME}/.local/bin/switcher"/

For support & all other kinds of questions open an issue ticket.

winswitch 1.0
Usage: winswitch [OPTION]
A command line tool to switch the active window using the keyboard, displays  an overlay
on the visible dekstop(s) to select window, mostly used for tiling window managers 
and multi screen setup.Get help:   --help 
Actions:
  --timeout      Set timeout period in seconds to quit, 0 for no timeout, default 10s.
  --fontsize     Set the font size in pixels, default 64 pixels 
  --font         Set the ttf or otf font path name
  --fontcolor   Set the font color format is hex color RRGGBBAA 
                       the alpha value will be used to indicate selctcted characters 
  --boxcolor    Set the box color format is hex color RRGGBBAA 
                       the alpha value will be used to indicate selctcted characters 
  --winalpha    Set the window alpha must be between 0.0 and 1.0, default 0.1  
  --nosticky           Ignore sti wwcky windows, some applications (docks) do not  
                       set properly its window property 
  --label      A string of characters used to label the windows must be at least 2 character long, 
                       and more than the number of active desktops, characters must be not repeated or behavior
                       behavior of the app is undefined
example:
winswitch -timeout 10 -boxcolor 3B3C35FF -fontcolor FDFFFFFF   -label fhdjsksla 
  -h  --help  for this listing 
Author, current maintainer: Philippe Charest