Jumping directionally between floating windows

[torgeir]

If I have two floating windows close to each other, can I somehow easily jump from one to the other, preferably using "directional commands" rather than cycling through all floating windows, similarly to how I would yabai -m window --focus west (to move to the window left of the focused one) if they were tiled?

Edit: typo

[koekeishiya]

The directional commands only apply to managed windows. You'd have to script something yourself using the query system. I believe something like this has been done previously in one of the closed issues, but I don't remember what to search for to locate it.

docs for query: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/blob/master/doc/yabai.asciidoc#query

[torgeir]

A variant of this might work #1326

[torgeir]

Here's take 1, that does not jump directionally, but rather cycles windows that are floating, if the script is run from a floating window. If it is run from a tiled window it will jump between tiled windows.

is_float=$(yabai -m query --windows --window | jq '."is-floating"')

if [ "$is_float" = "true" ]; then
  yabai -m window --focus $(yabai -m query --windows | \
    jq -e --argjson pos 1 '(.[] | select(."has-focus")) as {$id, $app}
      | map(select(."is-floating" == true))
      | sort_by(.space, .frame.x, .frame.y)
      | map(.id)
      | .[(index($id)+($pos))%length]')
else
  yabai -m window --focus east  || yabai -m display --focus east
fi

Edit: Change 1 to -1 to move in the other direction. I put this in a script and bind it like this

alt - h : ~/bin/yabai-left.sh
alt - l : ~/bin/yabai-right.sh

[AlgusDark]

You could also make only one script and pass the $pos

#!/bin/zsh

while [[ "$#" -gt 0 ]]
  do
    case $1 in
      -f|--focus)
        if [ "$2" = "prev" ]
        then
          pos=-1
        else
          pos=1
        fi
        ;;
    esac
    shift
  done

pos=${pos:-1}

focus="$(yabai -m query --windows | \
    jq -e --argjson pos $pos '
      first(.[] | select(."has-focus")) as {id:$id, space:$space}
        | map( select( ."is-floating" and .space == $space) )
        | sort_by(.frame.x, .frame.y)
        | map(.id)
        | .[( (index($id) // if $pos == 1 then -1 else length end) + $pos ) % length]
    ')"

yabai -m window --focus "$focus"

Then I just do it like:

lalt - u : "$SKHD_SCRIPTS_DIR/cycle_app" --focus prev
lalt - o : "$SKHD_SCRIPTS_DIR/cycle_app" --focus next