focusdir - bakkeby/dusk GitHub Wiki

The focusdir function allows focus to change in a directional manner by calculating the best suitable candidate based on the position and size of all visible windows.

This may be desirable for grid layouts or the fibonacci spiral / dwindle layouts rather than simply focusing on clients up and down the stack.

• focus on the next client in any direction (up, down, left, right)
• focus wraps around across monitors (as opposed to being isolated to a single monitor)
• focus restricted to floating or tiled windows only (depending on the state of the currently focused client)
• works across workspaces (when more than one workspace is viewed at the same time)
• does not support focusing on stacked clients that are not visible (e.g. deck layout)
• restricted to visible windows only

This is accessible through Super+<arrow> directional keys.

Tip: When using runtime configuration the direction name can be passed as the argument, making for more readable configuration. The name matching is case-insenstive.

  { modifier = "Super", key = "Left", function = "focusdir", argument = "left" },
  { modifier = "Super", key = "Right", function = "focusdir", argument = "right" },
  { modifier = "Super", key = "Up", function = "focusdir", argument = "up" },
  { modifier = "Super", key = "Down", function = "focusdir", argument = "down" },

External commands:

duskc run_command focusdir 0  # Left
duskc run_command focusdir 1  # Right
duskc run_command focusdir 2  # Up
duskc run_command focusdir 3  # Down

Also see placedir.

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