syphdias/i3-swap

Swap two containers in i3 or sway

About

This swaps two containers/windows in an i3 workspace: The focused container and another one, depending on the picked options. Probably works on sway as well – no guarantees.

• Documentation (and FAQ – if any) can be found in this README.
• There is currently no package to install the script. You need to download it from here or clone the repository.
• Feel free to file issues to report bugs, ask questions, or request features.
• Feel free to open a pull request. Please use the black code formatter.

Requirements

pip install --user -r requirements.txt

Usage and Options

In one picture:

Layout

By default it swaps horizontal, but --layout vertical should work as well. Though I did little testing since it is not that useful to me at the moment.

Level

By default it goes up the workspace tree to find the highest horizontally split container (depending on layout option). You can change it to use the lowest container that is horizontally/vertically split.

The is no middle ground. If you have a suggestion how and how it would be useful, let me know.

Neighbor

In the case of only two containers in the parent container, it knows which one to swap with. If there is more than two containers it takes the first. You can pick --neighbor last, if you prefer.

Like with the level option. There is no middle ground. But again, if you know how it could be done and how it would be useful, let me know.

Swapee

By default the first container in the "other half" will be picked. With the level option we found a common container. Now we need to look at the other half and pick a candidate for swaping – the swapee. You can also pick the --swapee last, if you prefer.

Like with the level and neighbor option. There is no middle ground. But again, if you know how it could be done and how it would be useful, let me know.

Usage as Shortcuts

You probably want this to be triggered by a shortcut. The configuration for it in i3 could look something like this:

bindsym $mod+m       exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/i3-swap/i3swap.py
bindsym $mod+Shift+m exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/i3swap.py --swapee last

Disclaimer

I know this is a horrible name. I just wrote this for myself, but feel free to report any issues you encounter.