wmfocus - Visually focus windows by label

Build Status AUR Crates.io dependency status license

This tool that allows you to rapidly choose a specific window directly without having to use the mouse or directional keyboard navigation.

Screen cast

Thanks to cairo, it should work on all kinds of screens and automatically display at the correct size according to your DPI.

Installation

On Arch Linux: Get it from AUR

With Cargo:

cargo install --features i3 wmfocus
wmfocus

Usage

Draw labels on the upper-left corner of all windows:

wmfocus

Completely fill out windows and draw the label in the middle:

wmfocus --fill

Use a different font (as provided by fontconfig):

wmfocus -f "Droid Sans":100

Change up the default colors:

wmfocus --textcolor red --textcoloralt #eeeeee --bgcolor "rgba(50, 50, 200, 0.5)"

wmfocus will make use of a compositor to get real transparency.

Full help

``` wmfocus 1.0.1 Sven-Hendrik Haase svenstaro@gmail.com

USAGE: wmfocus [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS: --fill Completely fill out windows -h, --help Prints help information -p, --printonly Print the window id only but don't change focus -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: --textcolor Text color (CSS notation) [default: #dddddd] --textcoloralt Text color alternate (CSS notation) [default: #666666] --bgcolor Background color (CSS notation) [default: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0.9)] --halign Horizontal alignment of the box inside the window [default: left] [possible values: left, center, right] --valign Vertical alignment of the box inside the window [default: top] [possible values: top, center, bottom] -f, --font Use a specific TrueType font with this format: family:size [default: Mono:72] -c, --chars Define a set of possbile values to use as hint characters [default: sadfjklewcmpgh] -m, --margin Add an additional margin around the text box (value is a factor of the box size) [default: 0.2] ```

Compiling

You need to have recent versions of rust, cargo, xcb-util-keysyms, libxkbcommon-x11 and cairo installed.

Then, just clone it like usual and cargo run to get output:

git clone https://github.com/svenstaro/wmfocus.git
cd wmfocus
cargo run --features i3

Window manager support

While this tool is window manager-independent, an implementation for your favorite window manager might not yet be available. Current support:

If you want to implement support for more window managers, have a look at the i3 implementation.

This tool is heavily inspired by i3-easyfocus.

Releasing

This is mostly a note for me on how to release this thing: