Help needed with yabai/skhd config

[justsharan]

Hello! I'd like to define a hotkey that moves west if the current window is to the east and east if the current window is to the west. So it basically toggles between east/west. How would I do that?

[dominiklohmann]

You can implement wraparound like this:

# cycle forwards
yabai -m window --focus next || yabai -m window --focus first

# cycle backwards
yabai -m window --focus prev || yabai -m window --focus last

Or, for a more complex solution that works a fair bit better:

# cycle forwards
yabai -m query --spaces --space \
  | jq -re ".index" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m query --windows --space {} \
  | jq -sre "add | map(select(.minimized != 1)) | sort_by(.display, .frame.y, .frame.x, .id) | reverse | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).id" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m window --focus {}

# cycle backwards
yabai -m query --spaces --space \
  | jq -re ".index" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m query --windows --space {} \
  | jq -sre "add | map(select(.minimized != 1)) | sort_by(.display, .frame.y, .frame.x, .id) | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).id" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m window --focus {}

[rockyzhang24]

In the easier one, | should be ||, right?

[dominiklohmann]

You are absolutely correct. I edited the post accordingly.

[rockyzhang24]

For the complex solution, can I simplify it to:

# cycle forwards
yabai -m query --windows --space \
  | jq -re "map(select(.minimized != 1)) | sort_by(.frame.y, .frame.x, .id) | reverse | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).id" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m window --focus {}

# cycle backwards
yabai -m query --windows --space \
  | jq -re "map(select(.minimized != 1)) | sort_by(.frame.y, .frame.x, .id) | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).id" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m window --focus {}

(1). We only care about all the windows in the currently focused workspace, so we can get all the windows in the space by yabai -m query --windows --space directly.
(2). I removed -s along with add. I think we can directly use map() first.
(3). I removed .display in sort_by(), because we're caring about windows in the focused workspace, thus nothing to do with other displays.

Am I correct? Thanks a lot.

[ajc5660]

Amazing solution