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Despite the existing hotkey support for window tiling in Cinnamon, an efficient mechanism for navigating between the tiled windows, apart from tabbing through the list of open windows, was missing.

This patch adds support for navigation between windows using hotkeys.

Despite the existing hotkey support for window tiling in Cinnamon,
an efficient mechanism for navigating between the tiled windows,
apart from tabbing through the list of open windows, was missing.

This patch adds support for navigation between windows using hotkeys.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Schaffner <[email protected]>
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Additional patches for testing:

cinnamon:

diff --git a/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py b/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py
index d65a9628c..5406b516c 100755
--- a/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py
+++ b/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ KEYBINDINGS = [
     [_("Push tile right"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "push-tile-right", "win-tiling"],
     [_("Push tile up"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "push-tile-up", "win-tiling"],
     [_("Push tile down"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "push-tile-down", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile left"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-left", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile right"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-right", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile up"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-up", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile down"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-down", "win-tiling"],
     # Windows - Workspace-related
     [_("Move window to new workspace"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "move-to-workspace-new", "win-workspaces"],
     [_("Move window to left workspace"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "move-to-workspace-left", "win-workspaces"],

cinnamon-desktop:

diff --git a/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in b/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in
index ed9ca9d..37f3bbe 100644
--- a/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in
+++ b/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in
@@ -21,6 +21,22 @@
       <default><![CDATA[['<Super>Down']]]></default>
     </key>
 
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-left">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Left']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-right">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Right']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-up">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Up']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-down">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Down']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
     <key type="as" name="push-snap-left">
       <default>[]</default>
       <summary>obsolete</summary>

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Marking this as NEXT. I like the idea but we're planning to look into workspace management in the near future and maybe redesign scale/overview. The design around integrated tiling features should go along with that.

@clefebvre clefebvre changed the title Add hotkey support for (tiling-) window switching [Next] Add hotkey support for (tiling-) window switching Nov 26, 2024
@clefebvre clefebvre changed the title [Next] Add hotkey support for (tiling-) window switching Add hotkey support for (tiling-) window switching Feb 24, 2025
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