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[FancyZones] Win+Ctrl+Arrow to switch focus to adjacent zones

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Summary of the new feature/enhancement

In i3, user can switch focus to adjacent zones in 4 directions using hotkeys (Mod1 + jkl;).

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

FancyZones can include shortcuts Win + Ctrl + LEFT/RIGHT leveraging MoveWindowIntoZoneByDirection implementation. The choice of the hotkey is based on Window Walker WIN + CTRL.

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:77
  • Comments:15 (4 by maintainers)

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YAMLcasecommented, Jun 24, 2020

Am I to understand this is an alternative to Alt+Tab? Where rather than cycling through an arbitrary list of all applications open on a desktop to change focus, we can directionally choose which app gets focus?

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YAMLcasecommented, Jun 15, 2022

@DerekRead That’s still too much context switching 😃

When I wrote my comment I was in the depths of developing a slackbot where I had my IDE on the right, cli terminal with python env running the slackbot to the left of that, and slack to the left of the python env. My workflow for rapid prototyping ended up being:

  • develop some bit of code
  • win ctrl left to focus the bot and ctrl-c; up arrow; enter
  • win ctrl left to focus slack and type some stuff
  • win ctrl right, win ctrl right back to coding

need to do some research?

  • win ctrl right to browser
  • alt d type in something like “how do i python again?”
  • tab; enter; tab tab tab tab tab down to the search results I want to read and enter
  • win ctrl left to get back to the IDE

I never had to touch the mouse or take my eyes off the relevant windows, never even had to move above the bottom two rows (except for the tab key).

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