Add monitor swap functionality

[tamayotchi]

Description

Adds a new feature to swap active workspaces across all monitors in a circular pattern.

• New script: omarchy-swap-monitors for circular workspace rotation across all monitors
• Includes proper error handling and user notifications
• Validates monitor availability before attempting swap

2025-10-07.19-29-43.mp4

[woopstar]

How does this work with a 3-monitor setup?

[rez1coder]

How does this work with a 3-monitor setup?

This won't work because MONITORS[0] and MONITORS[1] are defined.

You'll need to add MONITORS[2] for the third monitor in the script. Similarly for 4+ monitors.

For a robust solution, dynamically detect monitors and iterate through them instead of hardcoding indices. No sane person uses more than 3 monitors anyway.

[woopstar]

or a robust solution, dynamically detect monitors and iterate through them instead of hardcoding indices.

I know :) I was just too lazy to point it out. Wanted contributor to think of this instead 👯

[woopstar]

Maybe this works:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Rotate workspaces across all monitors in Hyprland/Omarchy

readonly TMP_WORKSPACE=999
readonly APP_NAME="Omarchy"

mapfile -t MONITORS < <(hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r '.[].name')

if (( ${#MONITORS[@]} < 2 )); then
    notify-send "$APP_NAME" "Only one monitor detected — nothing to rotate."
    exit 0
fi

get_active_workspace() {
    hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r ".[] | select(.name==\"$1\") | .activeWorkspace.id"
}

# Store all active workspaces
declare -a WORKSPACES
for mon in "${MONITORS[@]}"; do
    ws=$(get_active_workspace "$mon")
    if [[ -z "$ws" ]]; then
        notify-send "$APP_NAME" "Could not detect workspace on $mon."
        exit 1
    fi
    WORKSPACES+=("$ws")
done

# Move current workspace to temp
hyprctl dispatch workspace "$TMP_WORKSPACE"
hyprctl dispatch moveworkspacetomonitor "$TMP_WORKSPACE" "${MONITORS[0]}"

# Rotate: each monitor gets the workspace from the previous monitor
for (( i=${#MONITORS[@]}-1; i>=0; i-- )); do
    prev_idx=$(( (i - 1 + ${#MONITORS[@]}) % ${#MONITORS[@]} ))
    hyprctl dispatch moveworkspacetomonitor "${WORKSPACES[$prev_idx]}" "${MONITORS[$i]}"
done

# Focus the workspace that moved to the first monitor
hyprctl dispatch workspace "${WORKSPACES[-1]}"

notify-send "$APP_NAME" "Rotated workspaces across ${#MONITORS[@]} monitors."

[woopstar]

omarchy-swap-monitors should go into the bin folder

[woopstar]

Tested this last night. Works perfect on my 2 and 3 monitor setup.

[woopstar]

Consider to set timeouts on notifications