Feature Request: Add command to focus window by id

[refnode]

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I'm testing to switch from the yabai/skhd combination to aerospace.

As I work with a 49" screen now for years, I typically have three windows in 30/40/30% or two 50/50 on a virtual screen. My normal behaviour is to have shortcuts for my most important applications like browser, terminal, chat, ... and to switch directly to that window.

I handled this in the past with the Hammerspoon launch or focus API https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html and with yabai/skhd it was possible to query yabai with json output and to wrap some cmdc into a script triggered by skhd, see given example.

#!/bin/sh

APP="$1"

TARGET=$(yabai -m query --windows | jq '.[] | "\(.id);\(.app)"' | grep "$APP" | sed -e 's/"//g')

if [ "z" != "z$TARGET" ]; then
    TARGET_ID=$(echo $TARGET | cut -d';' -f1)
    TARGET_APP=$(echo $TARGET | cut -d';' -f2)
    yabai -m window --focus "$TARGET_ID"
else
    open -n -a "$APP.app"
fi

It would be great to have a subcmd in aerospace to focus an application with a given id.

Thanks in advance.

[nikitabobko]

I agree that it'd be nice to be able to focus windows by window-id or app-id

My proposal is:

aerospace focus-window [--window-id <window-id>] [--app-id <app-id>]

In the future, it may be even improved to add options like [--window-title <window-title-regex-substring>] [--dialog]

[refnode]

Sounds great, with your proposed Cli the skhd style window focusing is possible.

[nikitabobko]

Fixed in 0.10.0. focus command now accepts --window-id option

[refnode]

Hey thank you! Works like a charm.