workspace next|prev but constrained by the currently focused monitor

[carlosflorencio]

Is it possible to support the following functionality? (multi-monitor setup)

• workspace --wrap-around-display next|prev: Wraps around the workspaces for the focused display
• workspace --stop-around-display next|prev: Disable wrap for the focused display, when reaching the last workspace of the display, doesn't switch to the next workspace in the next display.

Thanks for app!

[nikitabobko]

It is already fixed but unreleased. 0.8.0-Beta will offer the following flags

              USAGE: workspace [-h|--help] [--wrap-around] (next|prev)
                 OR: workspace [-h|--help] [--auto-back-and-forth] <workspace-name>

              OPTIONS:
                -h, --help              Print help
                --auto-back-and-forth   Automatic 'back-and-forth' when switching to already
                                        focused workspace
                --wrap-around           Make it possible to jump between first and last workspaces
                                        using (next|prev)

              ARGUMENTS:
                <workspace-name>        Workspace name to focus

[carlosflorencio]

@nikitabobko thanks for the fast reply, but the functionality I'm asking isn't covered by those new flags. 😞

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but with a multi-monitor setup, having wraping with affinity for the current display is useful.

[nikitabobko]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but with a multi-monitor setup, having wraping with affinity for the current display is useful

That's more clear. You want to have next|prev switching in the scope of a single monitor. It is also implemented in main but unreleased.

It will be possible in the following way: aerospace list-monitors --focused | awk '{print $1}' | xargs aerospace list-workspaces --on-monitors | aerospace workspace next

[carlosflorencio]

Will try after the release. Thanks!

[nikitabobko]

I'm thinking that maybe the current behavior for (next|prev) is weird. I suspect that for plain next|prev people would expect it to be constrained by the currently focused monitor.

For people, who really want to cycle between workspaces of all monitors aerospace list-workspaces | aerospace workspace next will be available anyway

So maybe I need to change the default for next|prev

But I need more time to think about it

[carlosflorencio]

Yeah, can only speak for my preference but I like to navigate between the workspaces for the current monitor and manually jump to other monitors only when needed.

[nikitabobko]

workspace next|prev is constrained by the focused monitor by default now

It's possible to do aerospace list-workspaces --all | aerospace workspace next to switch between all workspaces

Released in 0.8.0-Beta

[carlosflorencio]

Awesome @nikitabobko, seems to work very well!

Now I think I'm just missing a command to focus a different monitor. At least focus the left and right monitor.