Quickwin

A fuzzy matching window switcher built with Fennel and GTK. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

This has only been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 with Lua 5.1.

Installation

You’ll need to install:

• A few debs:
  • luarocks: to install Lua packages
  • libxmu-dev: needed to build xctrl
  • libdbus-glib-1-dev: to install ldbus
  • libgirepository1.0-dev to install lgi

  All together: apt install luarocks libxmu-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev

• Some lua packages:
  • luarocks install fennel: the Fennel language
  • luarocks install stdlib: nice Lua addons
  • luarocks install lgi: bindings to GObject/GTK and friends
  • luarocks install lanes: threading for Lua
  • luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/manifests/daurnimator ldbus DBUS_INCDIR=/usr/include/dbus-1.0/ DBUS_ARCH_INCDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include/: dbus bindings
• My fork of xctrl (to allow multiple connections to XWindows per process):

git clone git@github.com:tobias/xctrl.git
cd xctrl
make install EXTRA_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/lua5.1 -fPIC" EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-Wl,--no-as-needed"

Building

Build with make build.

Setup

After building, you’ll need to bind quickwin.sh to a keybinding - I use alt+tab to replace the default switcher.

License

GNU General Public License v3, see COPYING.