docs: provide sample script and docs for window switching in Sway.

[markstos]

I might have spoken too soon. When I run rofi from a terminal, the script and syntax presented here work. But If I run it via bindsym in my Sway config file, the results for the other modes appear, but I get no "window" results. Strange! I haven't figured out why I'm getting this behavior yet. Here's my Sway config file syntax.

bindsym Mod4+d exec rofi -combi-modi "sway:~/.config/rofi/sway_window_switch.sh#drun#ssh" -font 'hack 14' -show combi

[markstos]

My personal issue was that I installed jq from a snap, which placed the binary in /snap/bin. When I ran the command from my shell, this directory was in my $PATH, so the command succeed. However, this directory is not part of the executable path used by the sh shell in a Sway exec command. I resolved the issue for myself by using the full path jq in my script, but this shouldn't be an issue for other people have jq in a standard directory.

[lbonn]

You're right I should have given more details. I also started with some jq script but was disappointed with the speed (it shelled-out a lot of programs), so in the end I extended a small program I wrote in rust: https://github.com/lbonn/i3-focus-last/tree/menu-plus

It has a daemon to track windows in order of focus: i3-focus-last server. Then you can just spawn a menu with i3-focus-last menu.

[markstos]

@lbonn Your i3-focus-last in Rust looks great. I'd love to see the README updated to document the 3 modes with example syntax. As a new i3/sway user the note that it's re-implementation of a classic tool doesn't help me. I've bookmarked it to try later and may submit a doc-patch if I end up using it.

[lbonn]

Sorry, some things are still in flux.

It's not documented yet and lives in a separate branch because I was waiting for some features to be merged in the i3ipc-rs crate it depends on. However, this project seems inactive now, so I might switch to using swayipc-rs...

[markstos]

I keep finding new projects written in Rust. Now I'm looking forward to contributing to a Rust project myself some day.

[lbonn]

It's now merged in the master branch: https://github.com/lbonn/i3-focus-last/tree/master#menu-mode

[markstos]

Thanks!

Will this be packaged for AUR as well?

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It's now merged in the master branch: https://github.com/lbonn/i3-focus-last/tree/master#menu-mode

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[lbonn]

I don't use Arch myself these days so I won't do it but anybody who cares is welcome. It is on crates.io though, you can install it by running cargo install i3-focus-last.

[RagnarGrootKoerkamp]

@markstos FYI: I've created https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3-focus-last-git/

[lbonn]

Now addressed in the README