[FancyZones] Win+Ctrl+Arrow to switch focus to adjacent zones
See original GitHub issueSummary 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.
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- Created 3 years ago
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- Comments:15 (4 by maintainers)
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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?
@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:
win ctrl leftto focus the bot andctrl-c; up arrow; enterwin ctrl leftto focus slack and type some stuffwin ctrl right,win ctrl rightback to codingneed to do some research?
win ctrl rightto browseralt dtype in something like “how do i python again?”tab; enter; tab tab tab tab tabdown to the search results I want to read andenterwin ctrl leftto get back to the IDEI 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).