l10nelw
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2 weeks ago This seems like a rather niche need. I'm working on a lot of other things, so even thinking about a solution will have to be low priority.
For now let's see if there are other ways to do this...
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Can Contexts itself exclude minimized windows? Could you request this feature from them? Because it's definitely more their thing than it is Winger's.
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Are there other window naming/titleing extensions that can react to minimized state? If so, try using one alongside Winger?
I use the Contexts app on macOS for windows switching (this is basically a fuzzy search alt tab alternative), in the app there is an option to ignore certain windows by their title.
Since I don't want to show minimized windows in Contexts, I picked the label "ignorethis", added that to the ignore list of Contexts and manually rename all my minimized windows to have "ignorethis" as their label, then when I remove it I once again /edit rename back to what normally was.
Now, it would be great to have an additional option to modify/update all minimized windows (since Winger already has a way to detect them and thus puts them at the bottom of the list) with a custom prefix/postfix just as we normally now have, but it's for all windows. This way we can even have a random string as a postfix which the can be used in alt-tab like apps like Contexts to ignore all windows that contain it.
I do understand that for some Winger is primarily used as the window switcher itself, but I use it for browser window management and tab migrator (between windows), and I imagine that others might find it useful.