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I am on dwm. This tool does successfully list all of the windows and switch to the right tag, but does not pay attention to which monitor the window is on. Say I'm on tag 2 monitor 1 and searching for a window that is on tag 4 monitor 2, this tool finds it but then switches to tag 4 monitor 1. This could be a bug specifically affecting dwm or just a missing feature. Either way, I would love to see it fixed.

Hi @Antithesisx,

Many thanks for this great tool. Precisely what I was looking for to quickly switch to an open window!

One request. Would it be possible to add an option to specify the font which is used by dswitcher?

Such as: $ dswitcher -font Droid Sans-8:bold

I would prefer to use an Xft font.

Thanks for your opinion!

Robert

Hi there,

One cool idea I came up with is sorting the windows according to their recent use.

Let's say you have 5 open windows but recently switched from Firefox to Thunderbird. Could this information somehow be reflected in the following sorting order?

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird 
3. Window 3
4. Window 4
5. Window 5

Do you find such a feature useful?

Thanks,

Robert

#!/bin/sh
date=$(date +"%a %d. %b %R")
num=$(wmctrl -l | awk '{$1="";$2="";$3="";gsub(/ /,"", $0);printf("%d - %s\n",NR,$0)}' | dmenu -b -i
-p "$date" -l 30 | cut -d"-" -f1)
[ -z "$num" ] || wmctrl -l | awk -v n="$num" 'NR==n { print $1 }' | xargs wmctrl -i -a

I noticed your script was pretty laggy. So I fixed it. This script is a lot faster.

1. sh invocation is faster
2. replaced some tools with awk. I saw you used sed to squeze spaces. Look at tr, for those tasks tr is much faster. But as I invoked awkI've let it handle that job as well.
3. you don't need to handle the height. Dmenus -l parameter is a "max height". If you feed it with less rows, it will show less.

Take some ideas from it if you want.