Feature request: Assign letters to all windows (even on invisible workspaces)

[Zeioth]

This would allow to navigate in an easier way. The main difficulty of implementing this feature would be to think a way to assign letters consistently.

[svenstaro]

This could conceivably be an option however I'm also unsure whether it would make letters change too much. Perhaps some kind of per-desktop hashing or prefixing? Would you like to play with this and attempt an PR?

[markstos]

So the idea is that even though you can't see a workspace, you would know that the window you wanted to switch to was the "2nd window on the 3rd workspace", so you would enter "32" as the code and go there? I presume "32" wouldn't appear on the visible window, since that would be confusing.

If you know exactly what you want to switch to on a screen you can't see, it work better to use a tool to "switch to window by name" as Rofi provides, or "Focus a window based on a mark you set", as both I3 and Sway provide.

If you want to visually switch to a specific window on a workspace that's currently invisible, read on.

This sounds like it might be best implemented as integration between an "Expose" like tool and wmfocus.

When a key is pressed, thumbnails of all active workspaces would appear, with wmfocus like overlays on each app within the thumbnail. Selecting a letter would switch to the right workspace and focus the app.

Here's one such Expose-like app that I've used: https://github.com/mihalea/i3expo

A question is whether this could be implemented as integration between two apps, or whether one app needs to provide the features of both the "Expose" functionality and the wmfocus functionality.

[svenstaro]

So I gotta be honest I'm a bit skeptical but I'd be happy to check out a sample implementation and see how it feels. I'm unlikely to implement this myself currently as I don't see how it would complement my workflow.

If this is your itch to scratch, how about you whip together a quick prototype and then we can take a look and see how it fits together?

[markstos]

I recommend this issue be closed. There's been no interest in it in two years.