Marking - bakkeby/dusk GitHub Wiki

Clients can be marked for group action.

What this means is that multiple clients can be selected and certain actions that normally only affect the client that has focus will apply to all marked clients across workspaces.

As an example one can mark several clients, hit the Super+q keybinding to trigger the killclient function and all marked clients will be closed.

Example marking clients using the mouse:

Via keybindings it is also possible to select all clients on a workspace, or one at a time.

Here is a list of functions that control marking of clients:

Function	Description
mark	Marks the selected client for group action
markall	Marks all clients on the current workspace for group action
markmouse	Allows for clients to be marked and unmarked using the mouse
togglemark	Toggles the marked status for the current client
unmark	Unmarkes the selected client
unmarkall	Unmarks all marked clients across all workspaces

Not all functions support group action via marked clients.

Here is a list of the functions that do support this:

Function	Description	Topic
changeopacity	Changes the opacity of a window during runtime	Window
killclient	Kills the selected client on the current workspace	Window
movetowsbyname	Moves the currently active window to the workspace with a given name	Workspaces
movewsdir	Move a client to the workspace on the immediate left or right of the active workspace	Workspaces
movews	Move a client window to another workspace by clicking on the workspace icon on the bar	Workspaces
removescratch	Removes scratchpad assignment for the selected client	Scratchpads
setscratch	Adds scratchpad assignment for the selected client	Scratchpads
showhideclient	Allows hiding and revealing hidden clients by right-clicking window titles in the bar	Bar
togglefloating	Makes clients switch between tiled and floating mode	Floating

Marked clients are automatically unmarked when a group action is performed.

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