Moving a window while cycling through spaces

[maxjowett]

First, I'd like to say I am really enjoying yabai. I've spent some time tweaking my config and have found myself looking for a solution to move windows without explicitly stating which space first.

For example - I'm currently using the following to loop through spaces with alt + space:

alt - space : yabai -m space --focus "$(yabai -m query --spaces --display \ 0 | jq 'reverse | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).index')"

Is it possible to select a window, cycle through spaces, and drop it in the active space? This pattern would almost resemble a drag and drop, better yet, select and drop.

Using jq, I'm able to query for the active window id, as far as I know I can't set variables in my skhdrc. Is it possible to store this value somehow? If I could get over this hump I feel like the rest would come together fairly easily.

If I can clarify anything please let me know. It could be that this is simply not possible.

[koekeishiya]

as far as I know I can't set variables in my skhdrc. Is it possible to store this value somehow?

I assume what you mean is that you would use one bind to select a window, and then press some other bind to actually perform the move operation?

If that is the case the only option I can think of right now would be to write the window id to some file /tmp/whatever and read that same file back in, when hitting the other bind.

[maxjowett]

@koekeishiya Thanks for the suggestion. I managed to get the following working:

Extract and store the currently focused window with:
echo $(yabai -m query --windows --window | jq -r '.id') > /tmp/window-id

Move window to focused space, and focus window:
yabai -m window $(cat /tmp/window-id) --space $(yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq -r ' .index') \ && yabai -m window --focus $(cat /tmp/window-id)

🎉

[koekeishiya]

You can also use pbcopy and pbpaste instead of the temp file I suppose. *echo “whatever” | pbcopy* and *pbpaste* to retrieve it. This clobbers your clipboard, but I think it is possible to set which pasteboard to use in case that is a problem.

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On 27 Apr 2020, at 22:00, Max Jowett ***@***.***> wrote: @koekeishiya <https://github.com/koekeishiya> Thanks for the suggestion. I managed to get the following working: Extract and store the currently focused window with: echo $(yabai -m query --windows --window | jq -r '.id') > /tmp/window-id Move window to focused space, and focus window: yabai -m window $(cat /tmp/window-id) --space $(yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq -r ' .index') \ && yabai -m window --focus $(cat /tmp/window-id) 🎉 — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#124 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABPDZV3IXI6B2DBU4RZLV43ROXP5LANCNFSM4MPZV46A>.