Rofi Window Switcher With XFCE (updated, now with icons)

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 08:36:10 +0200

This bug forbids rofi window mode to give focus to a selected window when click to focus is disabled in XFCE. Using the same trick the first commenter used, I came up with this script which uses wmctrl to handle windows listing, selection and focus:

#!/bin/sh

clicktofocus="xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/click_to_focus -s "

$clicktofocus true
w=$(wmctrl -l|awk '{$1=$2=$3=""; sub(/^[ \t]+/, ""); print $0}' | \
	rofi -dmenu -i -p "Window Switcher")
wmctrl -a "$w"
$clicktofocus false

Not the prettiest method but it emulates rofi -show window pretty well.

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Rofi Window Switcher With XFCE (updated, now with icons)