dchrzanowski / chwin

Keyboard based window switcher for Linux

chwin v 0.3

Keyboard based window switcher for Linux

Copyright (C) 2016 Damian Chrzanowski License : GNU Public License v3 Check out my website at: http://damianch.eu.pn/

Overview:

chwin is an application for linux only. It shows a small window with a list of currently open windows. A selection can be made by narrowing down the search with a keyboard and pressing Enter, note that using a capital letter as the first input triggers a case sensitive search. Users can also use numbers from 0 to 9 to quick jump. For traditional usage, use up and down arrows keys and press enter to switch to the selected window.

Dependencies

This software is for linux ONLY and requires you to install wmctrl (it is tiny), python3 and Gtk3 should be already installed on most of linux distributions. To install the dependencies type (Ubuntu, Debian etc.):

sudo apt-get install wmctrl python3 gtk3

For arch linux and similar:

sudo pacman -S wmctrl python3 gtk3

Any other distro should also have wmctrl python3 gtk3 in their repositories, just use your default package manager.

Installation:

chwin-standard is a low resource version (recommended). chwin-run-in-background is slightly more demanding on the resources (only a few megs), but it is also much faster as it runs in the background.

Copy all the files from either the source/chwin-standard or source/chwin-run-in-background to your ~/bin (/home/your-username/bin/ or /usr/bin/) directory. Just in case make sure that chwim is executable by running: chmod +x chwin from your terminal. Now you can bind chwin to any shortcut, or run it from wherever you want.

Configuration:

After the first run a configuration file will be created in ~/.config/chwin/settings.cfg

In the configuration file the user can change the window's colors and change the list of windows that should be ignored by chwin.

TODO:

create packages for .deb and PKGBUILD

Change Log:

• version 0.3
  • added a version that runs in the background and also added a settings manager
• version 0.2
  • fist release

chwin uses the following libraries/software:

• wmctrl
• GTK+ 3
• Python

Refer to the LICENSE file for details on licenses for the above mentioned.

chwin License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/