Added Switch Application

[edjoperez]

Adds functionality to toggle between windows applications

It doenst use its trigger, so it makes albert has a more natural experience when switch between applications or new ones. Like rofi

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Did you notice that there is https://github.com/albertlauncher/python/pull/5/files

[edjoperez]

The only difference is that this one gives you a more fluent experience when you select the app you want to launch, because it adds the applications that are already running and the applications that you would launch

[Raensul]

if i am switching from phpstorm to chrome it is no focused window. i must click to chrome's window and then press ctrl+T for example

[husimo]

Hello. It works great here under Opensuse Leap 15.0.
Just a bug :

• Firefox triggers the "Firefox" window where as firefox doesn't work.
• Konsole triggers the "konsole" window, the same as konsole.
  So it seems the script cannot properly detect windows where their name contains a uppercase letter.
  Thank you

[ManuelSchneid3r]

There is further the question how the heck we can get the correct icon paths. E.g. spotify has the icon name spotify-client. However it has to be possible because the window manager show the icons correctly.

[ed-fruty]

Works for almost all my applications, but won't switch to my PHPStorm running instance, only suggest to open a new one instance.

[capi1O]

Does not work for me, SwitchyApp 1.2 activated and wmctrl installed but no existing window appear in the results.

[divyanshu013]

Hey guys, how do I use this feature for switching apps?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

I am not sure anymore is this extension shipped in 14.22? Otherwise you have to download and install it manually.

[offzale]

@ManuelSchneid3r is this included in version 0.16.1? It is not working for me installing the rpm package in fedora 29

[kuamatzin]

I just enabled the extension but it does not work, I already install wmctrl, do I need some extra step?

[jason--liu]

Hey guys, Im still wondering how to trigger this feature? thanks.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

I just enabled the extension but it does not work, I already install wmctrl, do I need some extra step?

What does stdout tell?

[squalou]

Sorry to neco-bump this one but .... same issue as @jason--liu above.

at start

16:07:41 [debg:python.modulev1] Reading metadata of python module: window_switcher
16:07:41 [info:python.modulev1] Loading /usr/share/albert/org.albert.extension.python/modules/window_switcher

nothing more

when searching

16:10:54 [debg:core] ========== QUERY: something  ==========
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:    261 µs SESSION TEARDOWN OVERALL
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:      0 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.terminal]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:    499 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.applications]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:    446 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.firefoxbookmarks]
16:10:54 [debg:calculator] Muparser SetExpr exception:  Unexpected token "something" found at position 0.
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:    213 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.calculator]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:    341 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.websearch]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:     56 µs MATCHES [org.albert]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:   5405 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.files]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:  18878 µs MATCHES [org.albert.extension.python]
16:10:54 [debg:core] TIME:  24828 µs QUERY OVERALL

whatever the string, even when the exact title match, nothing is suggested

I've added some more debug in the plugin,
and here is the output of (win) returned by wmctrl

Window(wid='0x00e00012', desktop='-1', wm_class='xfce4-panel.Xfce4-panel', host='boxtal-0100', wm_name='xfce4-panel')
Window(wid='0x00e00003', desktop='-1', wm_class='xfce4-panel.Xfce4-panel', host='boxtal-0100', wm_name='xfce4-panel')
Window(wid='0x04a00002', desktop='0', wm_class='google-chat-linux.google-chat-linux', host='boxtal-0100', wm_name='Samuel Guérin messaged you - Chat')
Window(wid='0x06200039', desktop='0', wm_class='Mail.Thunderbird', host='boxtal-0100', wm_name='Inbox - pascal@ronecker.fr - Mozilla Thunderbird')
Window(wid='0x04c0002c', desktop='0', wm_class='Navigator.firefox', host='boxtal-0100', wm_name='Added Switch Application by edjoperez · Pull Request #27 · albertlauncher/python — Mozilla Firefox')
Window(wid='0x01000006', desktop
....

which proves that the code works

I've added some good old debug print.

Code does find things and return 'results', but no idea what albert does with em

[ManuelSchneid3r]

@edjoperez ping

[rosaLux161]

Any updates on this?

[justpeanuts]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is this feature currently there in albert? - switch to an application window if it is already open instead of launching another instance (without using the seperate menu item to switch to an open window using the "window-switcher.py" python extension)

Thank you

[zoli]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is this feature currently there in albert? - switch to an application window if it is already open instead of launching another instance (without using the seperate menu item to switch to an open window using the "window-switcher.py" python extension)

Thank you

Yes in python plugins there is a window switcher that you should enable. Then for example if you have firefox open, When you search firefox in albert it brings another entry other that switches to running instance of firefox.

[tuttiamore]

The problem appears to be related to faulty destructuring of the window names into variables - the code assumes that window names always consists of two elements seperated by a ., when in fact window names can consists of more than two elements.

A quick hack for people interested in making this work:
Change the code in the python module on line 28 from:
win_instance, win_class = win.wm_class.replace(' ', '-').split('.')
to
win_instance, win_class = win.wm_class.replace(' ', '-').rsplit('.',1)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Please continue any discussion here: https://github.com/orgs/albertlauncher/discussions/1299

[ManuelSchneid3r]

albertlauncher/albert#123 (comment)

This poll decided on this plugin. If anyone interested in porting it to api v2.x please send a PR.