Window switcher for sway ('rofi -show window' clone)

sway-window-menu

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

tree=$(swaymsg -t get_tree)
readarray -t win_ids <<< "$(jq -r '.. | objects | select(has("app_id")) | .id' <<< "$tree")"
readarray -t win_names <<< "$(jq -r '.. | objects | select(has("app_id")) | .name' <<< "$tree")"
readarray -t win_types <<< "$(jq -r '.. | objects | select(has("app_id")) | .app_id // .window_properties.class' <<< "$tree")"

switch () {
    local k
    read -r k
    swaymsg "[con_id=${win_ids[$k]}] focus"
}

for k in $(seq 0 $((${#win_ids[@]} - 1))); do
    echo -e "<span weight=\"bold\">${win_types[$k]}</span> - ${win_names[$k]}"
done | rofi -dmenu -markup-rows -i -p window -format i | switch

Very nice. I made a few modifications in order to

• show icons with rofi -show-icons
• perform only one call to jq to remove latency.

The window id is encoded inside the strings passed to rofi hidden inside an html comment, for instace <!-- 264 -->, and retrieved later on using sed.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Based on https://gist.github.com/lbonn/89d064cde963cfbacabd77e0d3801398 
#
# In order to have meaningful window names for terminals, use

# inside .vimrc:
# set title

# inside .bashrc:
# export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -en "\033]0; $("pwd")  \a"'

row=$(swaymsg -t get_tree | jq  -r '
    ..
    | objects
    | select(.type == "workspace") as $ws
    | ..
    | objects
    | select(has("app_id"))
    | (if .focused == true then "*" else " " end) as $asterisk
    | "[\($ws.name)] \($asterisk) <span weight=\"bold\">\(.app_id)</span>  - \(.name) <!-- \(.id) -->\u0000icon\u001f\(.app_id)"' \
| sed 's/&/&amp;/g' \
| rofi -dmenu -show-icons -markup-rows)

if [ ! -z "$row" ]
then
    winid=$(echo "$row" | sed 's/.*<!-- \([0-9]*\) -->.*/\1/')
    swaymsg "[con_id=$winid] focus"
fi

... and i rewrote this so it works with fuzzel, which involved (unfortunately) removing the fancy pango markup, but it should work with anything that supports dmenu now (as long as it also supports rofi's icon system):

https://gitlab.com/anarcat/scripts/-/blob/main/sway-window-menu