Cycling Through Multiple Windows in Firefox with Sway
For users of the Sway window manager, managing multiple windows can be a breeze. With a simple keyboard shortcut, you can easily cycle through all of your open Firefox windows. However, if you have many Firefox windows open, it can be difficult to keep track of them all.
Background
Sway is a tiling window manager for Linux, similar to i3wm. It is designed to be lightweight and highly customizable, making it a popular choice for power users. One of the advantages of using Sway is its support for keyboard shortcuts, which can be used to quickly switch between windows, move windows around, and resize them.
Firefox is a popular web browser that is used by many people. If you are a Firefox user and you also use Sway, you may find it useful to be able to quickly switch between your open Firefox windows. By default, Sway does not provide a way to do this, but with a little bit of configuration, it is possible.
wmconfig Bindings
In Sway, you can use the wmconfig command to bind a keyboard shortcut to a specific action. For example, the following binds the $mod+period key combination to focus the Firefox window and push it to the background:
wmconfig bindsym $mod+period app_id=firefox focus push $mod+., sway focus
This is useful if you only have one Firefox window open, but if you have multiple Firefox windows open, you may want to be able to cycle through them instead of just pushing the current Firefox window to the background.
Cycling Through Multiple Firefox Windows
To cycle through multiple Firefox windows in Sway, you can use the following script:
#!/bin/sh
# Cycling through Firefox windows in Sway
firefox_windows=$(swaymsg -tt 1000 -r | grep 'class_instance = "Firefox"' | awk '{print $1}')
current_firefox=$(swaymsg -tt 1000 -p | grep -oE '[0-9]+')
index=0
for window in $firefox_windows; do
if [ "$window" = "$current_firefox" ]; then
index=$((index + 1))
fi
done
next_firefox=$firefox_windows[$index % ${#firefox_windows[@]}]
swaymsg focus "$next_firefox"
This script works by first getting a list of all Firefox windows using the swaymsg command. It then determines which Firefox window is currently focused, and calculates the index of the next Firefox window in the list. Finally, it uses the swaymsg command again to focus the next Firefox window.
To use this script, you can save it to a file (e.g. ~/sway/firefox_cycle.sh), make it executable (chmod +x ~/sway/firefox_cycle.sh), and bind it to a keyboard shortcut in your Sway configuration file:
bindsym $mod+comma exec ~/sway/firefox_cycle.sh
- Sway is a tiling window manager for Linux that supports keyboard shortcuts.
- The
wmconfigcommand can be used to bind a keyboard shortcut to a specific action in Sway. - By default, Sway does not provide a way to cycle through multiple Firefox windows, but it is possible with a script.
- The script provided in this article can be used to cycle through multiple Firefox windows in Sway.