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vilhalmer/sway-focus-container-index.sh

Created December 25, 2018 04:43
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Select sway containers by index
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sway-focus-container-index.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Bless jq, it even does the math for us
swaymsg "[con_id=$(swaymsg -t get_tree | jq "recurse(.nodes[]; .nodes) | .nodes | select(any(.focused)) | .[$1-1].id")]" focus
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vilhalmer commented Dec 25, 2018 •
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bindsym $mod+1 exec sway-focus-container-index 1, etc and it's really handy for hopping around tabbed containers. As a bonus, $mod+0 will hop to the rightmost container since it causes jq to index into the array at -1.

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